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Negro Actor Ingram, not to be confused with Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand...
Although the superior playing of von Stade dominated the play, the Crimson horsemen had the edge in quicker turning ponies and were able to gain a 7 to 0 lead early in the game...
...horse trainer, Townsend sometimes races his own horses, sometimes goes on shares with other owners. He travels with the horses, in a truck. His affection is not for the bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as the Frying Pan or Leaky Roof circuit. In 20 years he has acquired a vast acquaintance with this circuit's "bush-riders," carnival people, horse breeders, newspapermen, and with the character of each small-town track. Both Lee Townsend's friends and Manhattan critics last week found the new paintings...
...above war's sorrows soared Bomber Vittorio that he writes: "I remember that one group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst...
...Surprise of the show was 15-year-old Joan Dixon of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Dixon, mounted on Colonel Vadim Makaroff's old chestnut mare, Melody Girl, jumped in the touch-and-out sweepstake, competing with nearly 50 professional horsemen, experienced cavalry officers and expert amateurs. Miss Dixon leaped faultlessly over the difficult course, blithely rode off with the championship...