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...outgrowth of the old pounding races (follow-the-leader on horseback), a Maryland institution started by daring young fox hunters in the 18th Century, the Maryland Hunt-four miles over 22 timber fences, some almost five feet high-is considered by most horsemen who have ridden both courses more difficult than the world-famed Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England. Aintree's thorn hedges, through which a horse can brush without falling, are a pleasure, they say, compared to Maryland's rail fences, which are as stout and rigid as telegraph poles...
With Captain R. Bennett Forbes, Gaylord Dillingham, and either Ben Dillingham or Bronson Rumsey in the lineup, the Crimson squad is to play a six-chukker game against the Satirev horsemen, who come from Boston and Andover...
Rudolph Valentino in all his romantic glory; the Jean Hersholt, the Alan Hale, and the Wallace Beery of another day--all these familiar or renowned figures presented themselves to 700 members of the Film Society who attended the showing of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" at the New Lecture Hall last night...
...movie tries to show what happens to the world when "the four horsemen," Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death are loosed on the world. Valentino, who between love scenes fights for the French in the World War, is killed in the climax of the play by his own cousin, a German...
...Four Horsemen" was a postwar film, produced in 1920-21 at a cost of only $640,000, but by 1925 it had grossed $4,000,000. It was the movie which established the reputation of its star, Rudolph Valentino, as the romantic figure...