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...individual whose person or property is endangered in a country at war. It is the fault of the American people if they don't know enough to stay at home and to keep their money in domestic pockets. Even Washington seems dubious of foreign entanglements, as they have recently forbidden American representatives to marry foreign-born women...
...Filipinos would try to ditch him to make the Moros, who are practically excluded from representation in the Commonwealth Government, into a completely subject people. In recognition that open hostilities were at hand, the Government constabulary in the Sulu Islands was reinforced and for the first time Moros were forbidden to wear their traditional arms, krises, barongs, kampilans. Many Moro datus, maharajahs, panglimas and imams retired to their secret strongholds to prepare for the struggle...
...jail for rioting, made a scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party at the age of 76. With all this he wrote some 30 books, publishing the first when he was 43. He had returned to Buenos...
...Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...