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...social discord in an outlying Army post. Jilted by a dashing lieutenant (John Wrayne), the girl (Laura La Plante) marries his friend, who is a colonel. Later, to preserve the morals of her young sister, she compromises the lieutenant so seriously that he nearly loses his commission. Based on Augustus Thomas' play Arizona, which was produced in 1899, Men Are Like That seems a needless survival of an insignificant intrigue. A typically trite shot is the one with which the picture starts: an Army-Navy football game which the hero wins by kicking a field goal...
Northern Passage. With "no official starting point and no finish," Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife set out upon a pleasure flight to the Orient. They said goodbyes at Washington, New York, and at the estate of Father-in-Law Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair...
Died. Major General Augustus Perry Blocksom, 76, who fought successively against Apaches, Sioux, Spaniards, Boxers, Filipinos; at Miami...
...Garfield sons: Harry Augustus, now president of Williams College; James Rudolph, one-time Roosevelt secretary of the Interior; Abram, Cleveland architect; Irvin McDowell, Boston lawyer. All are living...
...York Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh received permission to fly over Soviet territory on their proposed flight to the Orient, arranged for fuel caches, tested their plane remodeled for the trip...