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...Germanophobe France paying all-highest honor to a dead German would be rib-crackingly funny if it were not so heartrendingly serious. The French chose their unknown poilu at random and because of that very fact it has on occasion been hinted that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman and a Frenchman who gave...
Icebound. Producer De Mille has dogged the footsteps of Owen Davis's play, except at the single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus...
...satisfied his wanderlust in the Army. He took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully, through innumerable adventures, human, dangerous, unbelievable, yet convincingly real...
With his enthusiasm for Dickens, which gave birth to a delightful volume, Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play, is linked his enthusiasm for the Army and the doughboy, which occasioned The Command is Forward, and his unqualified admiration of Mrs. Fiske, which gave the world Mrs. Fiske?Her Views on Acting, Actors and the Problems of the Stage. To these three volumes we may add a recent collection of essays, Shouts and Murmurs...
...Volunteers killed in the French Army during the War is the work of Jean Boucher. It represents a young soldier of the French Legion, rifle in hand, waving his comrades to charge. On one side of the pedestal is a poilu shaking hands with a doughboy, who is represented as Alan Seeger, the young American poet killed in the French ranks. On the other side of the pedestal is one of Seeger's poems...