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Show IR(D)ISK BEVERLY HILLS. Well ail 1 know Is Jast what I read in the paper?, or what I hear hither and thither Couple of weeks ago, had an in f . teresting littlt four day stay Id A Riverside, Cal. thats the -home 3(L ol the famous 'Uftl Mission Inn, the YVy- most unique ho rS. f . tel in America v T'ij; Its a monestary .Ai V -S? a ln-ss':)n- a fine I j. ." hotel, a home, a !, r ' V boarding house, a museum, an art gaiiery, an aviators' shrine. It combines the best features of all the above. If you are ever in anj part of Cal dont miso the famous Mission Mis-sion Inn at Riverside. We were out there filming the trotting racing scenes in David Harum. They have a great old Fair Grounds. We had about 150 people from Hollywood out there, then used a couple of hundred extras from there, and it was like a picnic. We had some real old race horse authorities, au-thorities, men who had been judges and starters on these tracks for years and years. Well sir there is nothing more interesting to talk to than an old horseman, and there is nothing any older than a trotting horse man. I never saw a man in the trotting horse business under SO. Now in our scenario, or script, a those things are called after Rot Wagner's famous script, why it had the race being for the best two oul of three heats. That means to any of you that dont know harness racing, rac-ing, that there is one race after an-other an-other till one horse wins two. If he wins the first two its all over, but he must win two. So we were to have it that way, but these old fellows, knowing the time the story was laid, 1893, informed' us that in those days it was three out of five heats. One horse had to win three races in the afternoon to win the prize. Well they said they had seen as many as ten heats, before one horse was able to win three. They claimed that in most cases a' pacing horse was a couple of sec onds faster than a trotter, although that when two record holders met, the trotter beat the pacer. There arc many cases where a horse has beer changed in a season from a trottei to a pacer. The pacer's power ano strength and drive come from his hind legs (like a runner) but a trot ters come from his front legs. His Is hy reaching, and not by pushing There are two great strains, thi Hamiltonians and the Morgans They are pedigreed and are callec standard bred horses. Its a .peculiai cross from a thoroughbred with 8 mixed cold blood. They say a trottei or pacer is more intelligent than a runner. He has to know more; he evidently must have more endur ance, for no runner could run ten heats in an afternoon. We are. driving the first'make ol low wheel sulkys. They come in '92 Still they are much higher than the low ones they uso today. 1 want fJ'Y n to tell you its I rpbl quite a trick, try -i& rf ing to drive one S0XA' of those with K'i-'A' Cy pretty fast J V-hW horses too, and 'jffici: S ten drivers on the track at iff pVV( once. There is ( tCfr-iyK always a hole ! big enough for ""--N horse but how j Ts? about the buggy " i he is towing along! The only thing I had to recommend me was that I looked as old as a driver. I used tc be a pretty good just old common horse driver as a young fellow back home, but I never made the tracks. My father was the best driver I ever saw, though. Well he had quite a little training in his young days. He used to ha.ul freight from St. Joe, Missouri, to Dallas, Texas. Lord, his son hasent got hardly enough endurance to make the same trip in a plane, but I have seen Papa hitch em up when there was really wild and go where he wanted to with 'em, not where they wanted too. Sc if I show any driving ability in this my first real effort, it is inherited. Its not from hard work, perseverance, persever-ance, and taking advantage of my opportunities, (as the American Magazine used to advise us). By the way this depression and the fall of the big man has kinder knocked the props out of all those success sto-rys sto-rys we used to get fed up on. This is just an age of being a good Demo crat and holding an office. Thats all there is to success now. 1934, McNautht Syndicate, lie. "In" and "On" the Street The explanation of the expression "lives in a street" instead of "livef on a street," is that street includes not only the roadway and sidewalks, but also the bordering dwelling? and business houses. Sometimes the distinction indicates a difference in the street, the intention being to distinguish the chaiacter, as "his office is in Wall Street," but "he lives on Washington street." |