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Lost at the Front (Charles Murray, George Sidney). From Manhattan at the beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand...
General Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, next addressed the meeting. He told five humorous stories: one about a Scotsman and an Irishman, one about a Negro and a Negress (Rufus and Narcissa), one about a Negro preacher with a fondness for long words, one about a fish too big to be true, one about a man who said that a church service "beat the devil." He also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music...
...York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay, whose battling name is "Jack Sharkey," knocked down 202½-pound Bostonese-Irishman Edward James Maloney. There were 52 seconds in the fifth round, during which Maloney twice found himself prostrated on the canvas. The second time he did not rise unaided; so the referee ruled that Cukoschay had won by a knockout. Heavyweight Champion of the World James Joseph Tunney, in his ringside...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...