Word: galloping
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...Errol is the principal object of art in some extremely decorative snapshots of musical-comedy France. The comedian seems a bit less springy than formerly, for constant falls have not taken the jar off his spine. But he is as potent as ever in his tipsy dizziness, his skittish gallop. Beneath its bald dome, his elastic face is still fluent with its infantile grimaces...
...whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
Ramon Navarro in the title role is more roguish than ever before. One is grateful for the absence of "Sheikery." While the Arab's desert-tribe does gallop across the hot sands to the rescue of the Mission at the crucial moment, Rex Ingram has not handled this in the absurd way which often causes the spectators to reach for their hats and march...
...Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?all in the author's most approved manner and with the technique developed in his Birth of a Nation (cinematized by Griffith) and The Southerner...
...Griffith's American and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad, have made much of mad horse-rides over the scenery. It causes no surprise, then, when Mary Pickford, in her latest vehicle joins the scamper academy of screendom. She plunges ahead in a wild gallop that would do credit to Paul Revere. In fact, suspicion even obtrudes that it is not always Mary herself performing the athletic equestrian feats that are an honor to the Fairbanks family...