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...department therefore desires that commanding officers do not bring to trial by summary court martial petty cases where it is evident that the accused is not at heart a thief. The department desires to draw a sharp distinction between theft and petty pilfering committed in the nature of boyish pranks...
...Martial music receded as the frontier was driven back, and life in Georgia took on a richer note. Master workmen from over the sea built manor houses of English brick, and English airs were sung to the plucked melodies of harpsichords in great colonial halls...
...When, We Dead Awaken" is Ibsen's last play, but it is assuredly not his finest. Written at an advanced age, as was this drama of martial incompatibility and spiritual resurrection, the last dramatic moment of so great a man, was, obviously, not the best. The play, moreover, is a sort of apologia of an artist's life, the artist in question being, without doubt, Ibsen himself, and most apologias are over talkative. It is a notable tribute to the genius of a great writer that this loquacious effort, as presented last night by the Studio Players, should have aroused...
...Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to their plates. Trucks bearing sound newsreel equipment lumbered up into position. Idlers paused, gaped, made throngs. When Vice President Curtis left the Cabinet Meeting, a bodyguard hopped into his car beside him.* All was in martial readiness about the White House to meet a reported Red demonstration for Unemployment relief. Police, newshawks, cameramen, bodyguardsmen, idlers, the President himself waited tensely for the picketers to arrive and be repulsed. One hour passed, then another. But not a Red showed up. The police began drifting away. The White...
East Wind. Sigmund Romberg (Nina Rosa, The New Moon) is the lushest musician working for the musical comedy stage. His melodies, usually boomed by a great big band, come out thick as fudge. For East Wind Composer Romberg has done his fudgiest. Pleasing result: a martial number called "East Wind," a stomp-time ballad named "You Are My Woman" and a lament "I'd Be A Fool...