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...Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that...
...Plan is ingenious, effective. Three parallel streams of action run through the book, appear in turn, like plaits in a braid:1) Newsreel, 2) The Camera's Eye, 3) the story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually...
...frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted, and a brave detachment of Generals in navy blue, black and gold braid...
...Another famed Fifeshire golfer-carpenter: James Braid...
...captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...