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...summer because of Cicero's unsavory Capone reputation-was larger than usual. At the post Equipoise, instead of fidgeting as he used to do two years ago, waited calmly for the barrier to go up. Mr. Khayyam broke fast, got off to a length's lead, with Gallant Sir a length behind and Equipoise running a confident third. Down the stretch, around the turn, down the back stretch, into the far turn the first three horses ran in the same positions. Then, on the far turn, something unexpected happened. Mr. Khayyam swung wide at the turn. Big Brand...
...cooperation on the part of all officials, contestants, spectators, etc. There were only three cases of capsized boats, one of those occurring in the Woman's Singles, oddly enough. Following this race, in his capacity as referee, was James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, and aided by his gallant crew in the Newell Boat Club motor launch, Red Top, he salvaged the beat, along with its skipper...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's five-year-old racehorse Equipoise, carrying 135 lb., at odds of 15 to 20: his fourth race in a row this year, the Arlington Handicap, with Watch Him second and Gallant Sir third; at Chicago...
...Hollywood ventures she has been cast as a ratchet-voiced tomboy whenever possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick...
...kept time to Goldman band music. The "pop" concerts started in the White Plains West Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped up. In Westport, Conn., the Manhattan Symphony postponed until next week the world premiere of Secretary William H. Woodin's The Gallant Tin Soldier, gave instead Daniel Gregory Mason's Chanticleer. Nearby in Weston, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloffs backyard was rolled and ready for the new New York Orchestra which he will take touring next season (TIME, June 19). St. Louis concentrates on light opera during the summer and usually makes...