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Sommerfield's own section, a machine-gun unit, consisted of himself and John Cornford (later killed in action); Marcel, a young tough from the Bastille quarter of Paris; Freddie, another Englishman, an ex-Guardsman; Richter, a dapper German of mysterious antecedents; miscellaneous Poles, Italians. Equipment and uniforms were equally scanty; the men wore mostly overalls and windbreakers, had one antiquated Hotchkiss gun for the whole company to train on. (Later, on the eve of their first engagement, they wangled Lewis guns, had a day to learn the new mechanism before going into action.) Drill commands were in French, which...
While a German guardsman, Christopher learns for the first time that his mother was a princess. After that he cannot turn around without hearing about the dirty Hanovers. An actress who takes a fancy to him turns out to be his first love, the slum girl. But when he wants to marry her, she turns him away with a story about her past that is almost as bad as the ones he has been hearing about his Hanoverian relatives. Breaking point of his German adventures is when he sees how an old baron avenges the seduction of his niece...
...typical smaller summer theatre is lodged in a barn on a hill outside Peterborough, N. H. The Peterborough Players opened typically this week with The Guardsman. The audience, summer people from Dublin and Antrim plus a few wandering Bostonians, was scarcely more anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth...
...later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement. Oldtime Senator Moses, manager for Candidate Knox, spluttered angrily about Landon attempts to stampede "a deliberative assembly" and "frighten" delegates by extravagant claims of strength. By radio the New Hampshire Old Guardsman boomed: "This is a crisis and it must be treated as such. It must be dealt with as a matter of principle." Chimed Candidate Vandenberg: "I'm not interested in bandwagons. I'm interested in principles. This is not a circus. It is a crusade. ... I feel most...
...permanent chairman is a real power in the convention. That power the Party leaders last week put in the thoroughly safe hands of New York's Representative Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, 65. In the 20 years since he entered the House, that heavy-bodied, hard-boiled Old Guardsman, who made his fortune in the cheese business, has held doggedly to his belief in High Tariffs, the Gold Standard and the Republican Right-to-Rule. In the 1920's he was, with the late Nicholas Longworth and Connecticut's John Q. Tilson, one of the House...