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Se CENTAURS OF THE 12th LANCERS REHEARSE THE WONDERFUL CAVALRY DISPLAY FOR THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT year . The there are such perennial favourites as the musical ride , inter - port naval gun com petitions , physical training displays , and a revival of highly amusing and very daring feats of tent - pegging and horsemanship , the last - nated produced by normissioned officers of the 12th Royal Lance as Afridis or Pathans - their exac : is a little uncertain from the North - Wesb Frontiers of India . It is a most hilarious and mirth - rovoking item , and fully deserved the unbond applause which greeted the elfort of the formers . The Tournament itself is , a fine spectacle . The skill and versatility of the Army , Navy and Air . Force are combined with a show manship which puts into the shade the achievements of famed theatrical pro ducers . The histrionic and comic capaci ties of the soldiers and sailors should draw all the agents and managers on the lookout for talent . too . Skill and Humour . Particularly is this ability evinced in what is modestly termed on the pro gramme " Mounted Display by the 12th Royal Lancers . " Fearfully made up and jazzily arrayed , these Clarkson Cossacks , bearded Bolshies , and British Boxers perform wonderful feats to the accompaní ment of weird noises . They pick - up handkerchiefs from the ground while riding at the gallop ; they do tent - pegging with knives , and ontrival any circus equestrianis . They are real humorists , made up ion LANCERS ' REHEARSAL FOR ROYAL TOURNAMENT . Itteccita VAVE NON A picturesque cavalry evolution during a re hearsal at Tidworth , for the 12th Lancers ' musical ride , which will be a feature of the forthcoming Royal Tournament at Olympia . The 12th Royal Lancers rehearsing at Tidworth , Wills , for their display in the Royal Tournament at Olympia , PEGGING WITH KNIVES . A topical piece is that in which some of the 12th Royal Lancers become tribal chiefs for the time being , and do feats of pegging with knives , take handkerchiefs from the ground . at the gallop , and give other notable exhibi tions . The whole is designed as evidence of the justness of the tribal claim to rank among the nations . a WANAWANAVY NOV A figure in the musical ride , the picturesqueness of which is enhanced by the fluttering pennons . Tanks may replace cavalry , but ne can't imagine even whippet tanks doing a musical ride . The pictures were taken at Tidworth HE next - and , by gum ! it was some next was the musical ride by the 12th Royal Lancers ( Prince of Wales's ) . And how the horses tossed their prou heads , as jolly well they might , seeing tha they were , next to the little ones , the best looking things in the Olympia ; and how they made beautiful patterns on the sod and " right about wheeled " like trained soldiers ; and how beautifully bored stiff they pretended to look , cleaning their teeth with their lip and giving us glances every now and again . as much as to say- " We could do all this blindfolded and standing on our heads - if we liked . " THE And after thrilling us to the core with their elegant antics to a lot of musical chairs tunes , they waltzed away , the very best behaved beauty chorus in London , the band playing " God bless the Prince of Wales . " And that is almost as thrilling as National Anthem . our THE LANCERS DO IT TO MUSIC LYOMBO SHAK At nearly all the principal military and naval centres throughout the country rehearsals are in progress for the forthcoming Royal Tournament at Olympia . At Tidworth , where this photograph was taken , the 12th Lancers are seen practising their musical ride .. LL TOURNAMENT REHEARSAL . - The 12th Royal Lancers rehearsing at Tidworth , Wiltshire , for their display in the Military Tournament at Olympia . Forming figures during the musical ride . Ad wwwww FOR OLYMPIA'S MILITARY PAGEANT . - The 12th Lancers rehearsing at Tidworth the musical ride that will be a feature of the forthcoming Royal Tournament at Olympia . A Picking up a handkerchief while lying backwards over the horse at full gallop - one of the trick feats the Lancers think nothing of . SGT . WEBB . |
