Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase (see p. 24). Said he: "I feel that the mere sight of horses going over the jumps would hurt every bone in my body." Also last week, in Paris, France's "Chariot" was decorated with the ribbon of Knight of the French Legion of Honor...
Hollywood is volatile, jealous and perhaps sinful. But it is intensely loyal to the little man whom it used to call Charlie before the wide world called him Chariot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior...
When he comes to himself he is in ancient Rome, having just cracked up in a chariot race. Except that he finds himself talking Latin, that his name is Lucius instead of Luke, everything is exactly the same. The Fabers have the same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again...
...like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen Victoria sitting on a toadstool." Sylvia Thompson has also written: The Hounds of Spring, The Battle of the Horizons, Chariot Wheels...
...Sweet Chariot. The first act of this play was unmistakably suggested by the life of Marcus Garvey, discredited Negro leader, dreamer of black glories in Africa for himself and his U. S. following (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16, 1925)- The remainder is purely fictional. Marius Harvey (Frank Wilson) and his associates have planned a Back-to-Africa movement for Negroes, chartered boats, expecting to make money on the scheme. But when Marius Harvey assembles his clients in a hall to tell his plans, his eloquence carries him away, he becomes spiritually involved in the mission of leading his people...