Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since acquired world-wide fame as the first woman to conduct a large concert orchestra. At present she is training the Pierian Orchestra for its Brattle Hall concert on December 17, at which the principal numbers will be "La Deluge", by C. Saint Saers, and Berioz's "Hungarian March...
Georgia. . . . We will march in 1928, chanting a funeral dirge, carrying a coffin on which will be inscribed: 'Here lie the political remains of Al Smith...
China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
...South African and South American tour (TIME, March 23 to Oct. 26, 1925) he one evening unexpectedly sauntered with his ukelele on his arm into the saloon car occupied by South African newsgatherers. "In five minutes he had the whole crowd going at the top of its form. It was like a scene in the anteroom of an officers' mess after dinner on guest-night with the senior subaltern as master of ceremonies. Every eye was on the Prince, every face smiling, some with sheer de light, others with wonder...
...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...