Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mrs. Carreaud sued Mrs. Rolph (and her husband, co-owner of the ranch) for slandering War Glory. His stud value impaired, the plaintiff asked $34,000 damages-$24,000 (because she said her handsome stallion, once worth $25,000, is now barely worth $1,000) and $10,000 still due on the four-year lease...
...subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa of them all, was bruised on many occasions by being thrown, kicked, stepped on. As Mazeppa, the well-made Menken used to be stripped down...
There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park. There he looked over his stable of superb working Percherons (sired by mighty Fallowfield Buck, a pedigreed stallion bought from his friend Lammot du Pont) ; Brandy, his big Virginia hunter, favorite of his stables; dozens of new calves; his herd's milking records. He lunched with kindly, pretty Mrs. Pew in the mansion-house-a broad, yellowstone Pennsylvania farmhouse with a vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about...
Florian (M. G. M.). Lovers of fine horses may or may not enjoy seeing Robert Young somewhat gingerly ride a superb Lipizzan stallion (Florian) through this filming of an Austrian Black Beauty story by Felix Salten. They can scarcely fail to admire the stallion, who, with Charles Coburn (a sage village doctor), gives the best performance in an otherwise one-horse film...