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Arriving at Fort Edward in need of provisions, Burgoyne sent a Hessian force to seize American stores at Bennington. New Hampshire and Vermont militiamen intercepted the raiders, and drove them off in disorder with a loss of 207 men. The Americans, who took 600 prisoners, lost only 30 killed and 40 wounded...
With her looks, voice, sense of fun and a kind of invincible girlishness, Actress Fabray not only reflects what is bright in the heroine's role, but also slides over what might well be embarrassing. Greek-Parisian Actor Guétary, cast as a Hessian officer who joins the Americans and wins the girl, is in the approved style of European-operetta tenors, with both comic and romantic virtues and a good schmalzy voice...
Bundling is a coeducational operation. The man in this instance is Georges Guetary of the French stage. In the part of a runaway Hessian who is at first reluctant about bundling, he proves that he has an excellent voice, genuine comic ability and a charming stage personality. John Conte is a consistently amusing colonel without any qualms about accepting the bundling custom...
...work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even at the cost of a good position at the feed trough...
...gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...