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...months ago the original Corpse Blackamon, finding the long evenings in his coffin cramping and monotonous, gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse, managers searched for a successor. Last week the rococo façade of Buenos Aires' Cirque Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went...
...Stevens had previously designed E. H. Button's Hussar, Mortimer L. Schiffs Dolphin, W. L. Mellon's Vaga-bondia, and Vincent Astor's Nourmahal (with Architect Ferris...
...Duke of Gloucester, Captain of the loth Hussars, who is the king's third son, Prince Henry, paraded to the barrier on Jehu,† a tall gelding which belonged to his friend, Capt. E. A. Elgee. A fairly large gallery cheered when the Hussar Duke got off to a clever start. Coming into the stretch, he was a length and a half behind Aquilon, last year's winner. The Hussar Duke urged his horse, stooping in his stirrups, but Jehu was tired. Aquilon finished first, Mr. Polly second, Jehu third. Bookmakers made money, but several of the Duke...
...recorded that the Hussar Duke, before riding his race, asked the blessing of the Rev. J. H. Davies, Vicar of Westley Waterless, near Newmarket, who last fortnight said: "I am the chaplain to the King's Horses and the King's Stablemen . . . before the 'Guineas' I asked God's blessing on the stables. ... In answer to my supplication or by Chance, the horse...
First is Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 54, Earl of Athlone, a brother of Queen-Empress Mary, and since 1923 His Majesty's Governor General of the Union of South Africa. All his life he has been a soldier-a smart Hussar, an impeccable Life Guard, and finally, during the South