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...Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like this until the climax at the race track. Gallant Godfrey, returned to his owner, runs against Toledo's horse and makes everybody happy by losing...
Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...
...modern reader, Biographer Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant...
...stark narrative concerns a crippled aviator (Colin Clive), his beautiful wife and what naturally happens when the cripple's eminently healthy brother (George Brent) tries to be helpful to them both. Under its surface of gallant behavior and carefully constructed situations, Maugham's play was charged with a cool, premeditated horror which caused most audiences to dislike it. The film develops the superficialities of the story more extensively and resolves its crisis with .suicide instead of murder but it remains an embittered and exciting study of primitive perplexities in polite society. As the invalid's nurse...
...Sacrilege!" In the House of Commons last week Major Stanley was obliged to execute as gracefully as possible an excruciatingly awkward and painful maneuver. National Government were supposed to be advancing with their new Dole program on all fronts. The gallant Major had orders to sound a general retreat...