Word: stallions
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Sometimes on his white stallion, Shira-yuki, or in his crimson Rolls-Royce, he passed in public parade across the moat around his castle. Almost always his subjects hailed him with traditional banzais and reverential bows. But in 1932 an unidentified assailant threw a bomb at the Emperor's carriage, slightly wounding two horses of the imperial stables. Hirohito sent eight pounds of carrots to console the animals. No doubt, he pondered the words of his Grandfather Meiji, who had once escaped an anarchist conspiracy...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (20th Century-Fox) is a well-ventilated, prettily colored sequel to My Friend Flicka (TIME, April 26, 1943). Its simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...
Testing her over the mile and three-sixteenths run at Pimlico were two he-horses : the stallion Devil Diver, the gelding Megogo. They should have known from past experience that Susie's soft brown eyes belied her power and drive...