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Died. Lieut. General James Guthrie Harbord, 81, World War I hero (he rose from the ranks to become Pershing's chief of staff, commanded the Marine Brigade of the 2nd Division in the desperate fighting at Belleau Woods and Chateau-Thierry), onetime president and board chairman of Radio Corp. of America; of coronary thrombosis...
...Camp Young, Calif., near which the picture was made. Other members of the cast notable for their light, incisive realism are Kurt Krueger as the cold Nazi ace, Rex Ingram as the dignified Sudanese, John Wengraf as a treacherous Nazi major, Richard Nugent as a British doctor, Carl Harbord as an English ex-typesetter who likes poetry. Even more gratifying is J. Carrol Naish as the innocent, bewildered Italian prisoner, shooting the works in an entirely new kind of part for him, after years of playing limp, narcotic petty-gangsters...
...remainder of the cast are obvious tools in the hands of the writers' carefree vein. Arthur Margetson gives a polished performance with plenty of English as the philandering husband of Julia who finally forsakes his "Vermin in Ermine" and returns to the fold. Carl Harbord is thoroughly sufficient as spite-lover of Julia and a young accountant who gets way out of his depth to sink ingloriously in the end. And the rest are all good, heavily-accented English characterizations. It won't be theatre weather when "Theatre" hits New York, but fast lines and a fine cast should hold...
Last week, on the rolling links of the hallowed Apawamis Club at Rye, N. Y., these oldsters and some 300 others-including Surrogate James A. Foley, onetime U. S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell and Major General James G. Harbord, board chairman of Radio Corporation of America-jogged around in pursuit of the U. S. Senior Golf Championship, last stand in a sportsman's competitive career...
Married. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, 72, board chairman of Radio Corp. of America, onetime chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; and Anne Lee Brown. 55, great-granddaughter of Light Horse Harry Lee; both for the second time; in Rapidan...