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...mock court-martial will be enacted by members of Military Science 4 at 7 o'clock on Monday evening in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House. The proceedings are to be open to residents of the house in so far as the capacity of the room permits...
Since then for more than fifty years the composed militarily erect figure of John Phillips Sousa has dominated the world of military music. Although undoubtedly a great director and a versatile technician, he must acknowledge superiors in these fields. But as the inspired composer of stirring martial melodies he stands alone. In the blare of trumpets, the blast of horns, the shrill of clarinets, the reverberating beat of drums lies an overpowering factor in the patriotism of a nation. Of these elements Sousa was possibly the greatest master that the world has ever known. With consummate skill he combined them...
...General himself scuttled out of town, pursued by Japanese bombing planes. Harbin's Japanese and White Russian inhabitants cheered lustily from the housetops. Within a few hours the occupation was complete. Japanese soldiers rushed about with great buckets of paste, posting notices that the city was under martial law, that its inhabitants were not to be molested...
...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
...Ming dynasty, sounded its strident alarm and refugees from Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city the Simpson hustled out of the way. At Shanghai martial law was declared; U. S. Marines put up loft. barbed wire fences across side streets, planted machine guns. Into the harbor came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced...