Word: lancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lives of a Bengal Lancer has been in production ever since Paramount bought Major Francis Yeats-Brown's best-selling autobiography four years ago. Director Ernest Schoedsack (Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing...
Operator 13 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows the Civil War, lately neglected by the cinema, with MGM improvements. These include the Four Mills Brothers; the flower of the Central Casting Bureau cavorting in ball rooms or on battlefields; cavalry charges directed by Richard Boleslavsky (Way of the Lancer); Marion Davies and Gary Cooper, romantically disguised; a spy plot derived from stories by the late Robert W. Chambers...
...escapers, men, women, and children. Almost everything we do, except the supreme acts of higher enjoyment, which partake of higher reality, are escapes in some manner or degree." With this metaphysical prologue Francis Yeats-Brown, author of "Tales of a Bengal Lancer", introduces a strange procession of characters. Plucked from the dusty corners of history by his sympathetic hand, they have one thing in common. Each has escaped from something or somebody, and each has a tale to tell. The result is a diverting hodgepodge of narrative...
Everyman, published in London, edited by Major Francis Yeats-Brown (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer), calls itself a "World News Weekly," copies TIME'S picture captions, attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor...
...heart. Pandemonium. Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear. Chosen Provisional President to succeed Sanchez Cerro was cautious General Oscar Benavides, who has already served a term as Provisional President of Peru. Foreign correspondents wagered that one of his first moves will be to accept the League of Nations decision and end the Leticia...