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...around, took Navy into port, 27 to o. Michigan's passes beat Harvard's attempts at field goals, 6 to 3. Notre Dame. In a class by itself, this amazing football machine takes a sleeper jump almost every week, plays far & wide.* This year there are no "Four Horsemen" in the backfield; a dozen able ball-carriers enable Rockne to work to perfection his system of starting against any opponent whatever combination he thinks is just good enough to win and make the game exciting. Philadelphia has never before seen such football as Notre Dame exhibited against Penn. Marty Brill...
...story: In 1923, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. asked Valentino, then, the rage in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to try making records. They rehearsed him on operatic arias but were not pleased. He slurred, mumbled, muffed, his diction was atrocious. Finally the Kashmiri Song (because he sang it mutely in The Sheik) and El Relicario (because of his Latin cast) were chosen. To Conductor Ralph Mazziotta who coached him, Valentino inscribed a photograph "In remembrance of my first record. (Hope it is a good...
...center of the cattle country where most citizens carry revolvers at their belts, the town, with its gaily popular celebrations, attracted the native cowboys or sabaneros. They rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated in the most colorful of leathers, but these otherwise well-dressed horsemen rode in their stirrups bare-footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were all features of the ceremonies. Particularly impressive, though, were the bull-riding contests, held in a special plaza and attended...
...Army horsemen, fulfilling predictions, severely trounced the University polo team last Saturday by running up a score of 24 to 0 against the Crimson invaders...
Inasmuch as the Army quarters house the second largest riding hall in the world, the game will be played according to outdoor rules with four horsemen on each side...