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...rushing to the rescue with a fire-bucket of water brought in from the wings. Biggest laugh: Basso Richard Wentworth's grotesquely funny dance and aria as the huge, bosomy lady cook from whom the prince steals the three oranges by charming her with a piece of ribbon...
Both horses ran easily as the field broke into the din at the start: Citation just off the pace, Noor far back in the ruck. The real battle started at the mile and a half. Citation moved into the lead with a rush and Noor, skirting the flying ribbon of color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted...
...could hardly take her eyes off a nine-month-old Scottish terrier pup. Said Constance Winant, an old hand with blue-blooded dogs: "He filled my eye. I had never seen such an air of perfection, such perfect showmanship, such manners." She gave the pup a blue ribbon, then bought...
...shepherd and the pointer were beautiful in long-legged motion; Trick, skimming nonchalantly through his paces, was a smooth and jaunty little Scotty. Judge Hartman didn't take long to decide. He picked up the blue ribbon and pointed to Trick. Said Hartman: "Not only one of the greatest dogs I have ever judged, but one of the greatest I have ever seen...
There are important positive features necessary to the Western: the filming should be primarily outdoors, and it should interlace bright action sequences with dark, sinister night scenes. The music should be vivid, yet sensitive. But purity and accuracy remain most important. A recent example, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," was so pure and accurate that it pleased most audiences even though it had no plot. A bad Western is not worth a bag of peanuts to drown out its sound track, but the pure and faithful Western--the classic Western--can produce that six bits' worth every time...