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Unlike U. S. racetracks, the Epsom course is not flat. For a half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years...
...Taylor originated in 1912. The play deals, as everyone knows, with an old Irish fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed that her father is dead. By the time this report is exploded, she has learned enough about the depraved habits of the aristocracy to scuttle happily back to Ireland...
...HANGING CAPTAIN-Henry Wade -Ear court, Brace ($2). Complicated goings-on in a down-at-heel English manor...
Last week, Dr. Buchman and his 59 Group workers were well started on a great U. S. push. It had begun with a meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a luncheon to the Press, a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. To anyone who recalled how that stalwart Presbyterian John Grier Hibben drove Buchmanism off the Princeton campus in disgrace for over-zealous proselytizing in 1926, the extraordinary eminence of the Waldorf meeting's sponsors would have been a surprise. On the reception committee were not only such conservative and ultra-socialite names as Mr. & Mrs. Frederic...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...