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...time of the War he was a captain attached to the office of Naval operations in Washington. In 1919 he went as Naval attaché to Rome; in 1921 became Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard; in 1924 an instructor at the Naval War College at Newport. From that post he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, a circumstance that gave a major twist to his career. Soon after he was sent to San Diego, given the aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post...
...showing the puppet of Suzanne turning ridiculously into the real Suzanne on the stage of a theatre, the one of a heavy-handed adagio dance in which pretty little Lilian Harvey is tossed about like a beanbag by chorus boys. Good sequence: Suzanne's night mare, when she is dozing in her theatre dressing room, of her trial for murder by a court of furious, scornful puppets...
...prize, which will be given for the best book of poetry published next year, is open to all writers in the British Empire under 35 years of age. Other members of the committee are John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, and Gilbert Murray...
...were the Swedes. So intent were they on carrying home the trophy that they had shrewdly kept their superb mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs...
Other able performers included: ¶Sweden's Lieut. Sachs who, after his mount fell at a barrier and nearly rolled over him, got up and took the next five jumps without a fault. ¶Miss Mary Gwyn Fiers's nine-year-old chestnut mare Roxie Highland, which won the three-gaited stake, at which no horse has beaten her for three years. ¶Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim's chestnut gelding Firenze Fairfax, champion jumper of the meet, which won 50 ribbons...