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...court martial of Colonel William Mitchell for his charges against the War and Navy Departments proceeded for another week, the prosecution presenting rebuttal witnesses. One of them, R. G. Rath of Los Angeles, former Captain in the Air Service and decorated for bravery, drew hisses upon Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Frank R. Reid. Rath declared in cross examination that anti-aircraft fire was effective; that Colonel Mitchell (then General) had during the War ordered flights under extremely adverse conditions; once had sent five flyers not experienced in night flying out on a mission which brought them home after...
...Forest Hills. For the second time within a fortnight, a large crowd rose to boo, hiss and deride a national champion. Thus Pugilist William Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour...
...play that sets out to be sophisticated and arrives only at tedium. Most of the lines are like firecrackers that end, not in a snap, but in a sultry hiss. Probably much of this inefficiency is due to the acting. Alma Tell is sorely put to it to play a fascinating and experienced woman of the world. Such a woman must have a certain cutting edge. Miss Tell provides a round performance. A. E. Anson manages much better as a lean and saturnine seducer. The others do not matter...
Fifty years ago the deaths resulting from celebrating and reviewing the battle of Lexington exceeded the number killed in the actual battle. Last Monday's manoeuvres are too recent to account the cost of such patriotic exposure. Those hundreds who stood bareheaded in the sleet and dampness to hiss the British as they came on from Boston, were doubtless warmed by the glow of national pride...
...supported them, their families. He contributed to the U. S. Red Cross. Feeling against Germany, against Austria, was growing. People knew that he had served in the Austrain Army. Sometimes, when he played in U. S. cities, there were boos and catcalls jumbled with the applause; sometimes a disorderly hiss would interrupt his, music. In 1917, he canceled a concert tour, losing contracts worth $85,000. "I could not with self-respect accept U. S. money," said he. In an inimical country, he, an alien with a million friends, played only for charities until the War ended...