Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure that he can match the Elis, man for man, in White, Higginson, and Lewis, all three of whom have played their share of the sport. White was born and brought up in Cleveland's Gates Mills, polo center of the Middle West. Higginson spends his summers on horseback while Lewis, a Medfield boy, has been playing the game, as well as the bagpipe, for years...
...James, twice a Pulitzer Prizewinner for historical biography; Carl Carmer, popular best-seller historian. Under these three, Cavalcade this year has explored some of the more engaging byways of U. S. history-Sam Houston's ups & downs as a friend of the Cherokees; Mehitabel Wing's wild horseback ride down the shores of the Hudson River to win a reprieve from the British Governor for her husband; the story of Squanto, the helpful Pokanoket Indian who hailed the Pilgrims in English at Plymouth...
Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making...
Though Fannie Hurst, who wrote the English titles, considers it a "film destined to change the history of civilization," so far it has changed only the addresses of its cast. One of the first acts of the Nazi invaders was to arrest most of the actors in Skeleton on Horseback. Actor Hugo Haas escaped to France. Actress Karla Olicova, a niece of ex-President Benes, is missing. The dictator of the picture, Zdanek Stepanek, is in an unknown concentration camp...
...sort of glorified spying expedition through Asia to Peking. Purpose of the trip was to learn how hostile mandarins and officials had accepted the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, to pick up useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made his peace with the gift of a revolver, which he showed the Lama how to use. At Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed...