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...white-clad women; a handsome ballet to Chopin has a lyrical start, a lunatic finish; a big South American number combines hot dancing with jokes ("Army life is terribly strict-lights out at 9 o'clock, women out at 10"). For the finale, veterans of World War I clamber on to the stage while the cast slides into the past with Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles, Mad'moiselle from Armentieres. Then the cast roars into the future with...
Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...
...headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
These baby officers are tough babies. They are trim as well-kept guns, big fellows, by Chinese standards, hearty and jolly in rest and brutally energetic in action. They lead in person. With their divisions they clamber up mountainsides which would put most corpulent U.S. colonels hors de combat. In nearly four years of fighting, the young officers have mastered the arts of the field-silent de ployment, timely retreat, sudden concentration, plausible ambuscade, dependable supply of vegetable camouflage. Lacking artillery, they still know when and how they ought to use artillery...
...second afternoon the lifeboat sighted the San Demetrio again in the distance, still afire, surrounded by floating oil. Easing alongside, they tried to clamber aboard. Flames shot house-high from the afterwell. Amidships she was glowing hot. But by noon next day they had managed to get aboard...