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...play is adapted by able Kenyon Nicholson from the novel of Helen Zenna Smith. It is concerned with the activities of an English woman's ambulance unit. Early in the play the atmosphere of reminiscence begins to creep in when Kit (Katherine Alexander), weary and broken in spirit, bitterly denounces the hypocritical idealism that the home folk maintain about the War-suggestive of similar sequences in Suspense and What Price Glory. Also, as in What Price Glory, there is a good deal of hysterical cursing of superiors. And as in Journey's End there is a member...
Although she has a fiancé at home, Kit develops and exhibits the same we-only-live-once attitude toward morality that was brought forth in War Birds, subsequently in many a cinema. On a short leave she meets Captain Hilder (Warren Williams), who, like "Uncle" in Journey's End, has spent a quiet holiday in building a rock garden at his country home. Seemingly out of a sense of duty, Kit spends the night with him. After her friend is killed, Kit leaves the ambulances, returns home where she runs into Captain Hilder again, falls in love with...
...Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
Died. Kirk Munroe, 79, boys' author (The Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates - 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...