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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper correspondent who is captured by "a thousand, no, more than that--ten hundred Riffs," furnishes the amusement. His prayer to Allah, beginning "you know me, Al," is a gem. This comic interpolation, combined with Sigmund Romber's music, suffices to make "The Desert Song" entertainment of the first rank...
Rulers. Above the rank of mere celebrities were two rulers, one royal, one democratic, who reached Manhattan. They were the reigning Prince of Monaco. Louis II (TIME, Jan. 2); and the President of the Irish Free State, William Thomas Cosgrave (TIME, Jan. 16). Upon landing Prince Louis effaced himself completely beneath an incognito and succeeded in vanishing from the cognizance of the press. President Cosgrave was scheduled to tour the Midland and Eastern States, explaining his government to Irish-Americans, and counteracting the propaganda of famed obstreperous Eamon De Valera, now in the U. S. attempting to raise campaign funds...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
...sensitive as his quivering nose for news. Nonetheless, the title story, about a gallant deserter who, undemolished by a firing squad, returns after the late War to rescue his inamorata from marriage with an ogrish profiteer, is able romantic melodrama. Most of the other stories have the same rank in the same class. As a rule, they also have some connection with the late...
Although zealous, Mr. Cosgrave was not immediately conspicuous in a party of zealots. Elected a Deputy of the Dail Eireann, he advanced to cabinet rank in the Provisional Government; but in the spring of 1922 he was still little known to Irishmen. Yet when winter came he was, and is now President of the Irish Free State...