Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doomed Battalion (Universal). This is the first important effort to put into a picture the unbreakable deadlock so long maintained by the Austrian and Italian armies in the Dolomite Alps. The picture is that of a very different war from the one of the Western Front, a war white and unreal in which avalanches, blizzards and mountain peaks are tactical considerations. Unreal, but its very unreality, magnificently photographed, is part of its power...
...Graduated from New York University in 1910, he turned to politics, was first elected to Congress in 1916. Instead of warming his seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned to the U. S. and to Congress where he has been a centre of constant legislative turmoil. In 1929 he ran for Mayor of New York City as a Republican, charged Tammany Hall with most of the things which have been subsequently disclosed by legislative investigation...
...Secretaries for Aeronautics, War's Frederick Trubee Davison and Navy's David Sinton Ingalls, Clarence Young was graduated from Yale (1910). He practiced insurance law in Iowa, his home state, until the U. S. entered the War, when he became pilot of an Italian bomber. Shot down over the^ Austrian lines by an anti-aircraft shell which flopped his big plane upside down. Pilot Young was a prisoner of war until he escaped to Italy in a box car. Back again in Iowa he organized the first company to sell Wartime "Jenny" planes, disposed of 50 at $5,000 each...
Marching By musically relates how first the Austrians and then the Russians took and retook Lemberg in the stirring days of 1915. During one of these swaps a handsome young Austrian (Guy Robertson) is wounded and left behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe...
...Creel's Committee on Public Information during the War. (Mr. Byoir likes to tell how he once set a chorus of 600 U. S.-born Slovenes to singing their national anthem on a mountain behind the Italian front and caused 60,000 other Slovenes to desert from the Austrian army...