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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From appearance and actions," wired the English reporters, "Viscount Perceval is one of the toughest 'kids' that ever came out of the American continent...
...elected Queen of the Mardi Gras, went to California to work in the movies, her mother went along, let her change her name to Griffith. Now Corinne Griffith makes $500,000 a year and is said to have the most beautiful back in the world. She lives in an English house in Beverly Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver Morosco, she collects jewels, is said to own the biggest existing cabuchon ruby, reads with a magnifying glass the complete works of Poet Alfred Noyes in an edition one inch square...
Mons (British) is a news-story of the retreat of the English Army, known to their opponents as "The Contemptibles," from Mons to the Marne. Lacking the realism of such War pictures as Gold Chevrons, and Behind the German Lines, parts of which were taken in battle, its photographic effectiveness does not make up for conventional directing and for the stressing of isolated episodes at the expense of the main narrative. Maps might have given a sense of the unseen enemy pushing back the actual army, now dead, of which these actors are the equivalents. As it is, the soldiers...
When practical English and Scotch generals were inclined to have their doubts, General Foch would confute them thus...
...railroad, Mr. Rea was not only rail tycoon but public figure as well. Thus many a person knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...