Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies. In the background a staff officer is apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman with the remark, "It is the work of genius...
...from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army at the age of 18. in the midst of the great final period of the German Empire. Because of the von in his name and his family connections he was able to get a commission in the Third Guard Regiment as a Leutnant. Thirteen years later diligent Leutnant von Schleicher won a place on the General Staff and a promotion as Hauptmann (Captain). At the outbreak of the War Hauptmann von Schleicher found himself one of the office staff of brilliant, erratic General Ludendorff. Promotion came slowly...
...Marxes toured U. S. training camps with their first show, Mr. Green's Reception. When influenza caused the barracks to be quarantined, Gummo and Harpo enlisted. Groucho and Chico joined organizations for entertaining soldiers. Harpo reached France with the 7th Regiment. He worked as a reporter for the Stars & Stripes, like Editor Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Colyumist Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and Alexander Woollcott. With them he helped form the famed Thanatopsis Club, for poker...
...Company Sergeant Major C. F. H. Bayly, 58, English marksman of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289 out of a possible 300, second highest score on record. Desmond Burke of Canada, King's Prizewinner in 1924, won the Challenge Trophy, $50, and the Rifle Association's Grand Cross for an aggregate...
...baseball team of the 4th Regiment of the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Shanghai: the annual July 4 game against the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club: 12 to 4. The Amateur Baseball Club, oldest U. S. organization in Shanghai, started in 1872. Composed originally of derelict sailors and bartenders, it played frequently against the Presbyterian Mission at Sunkiangfu, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tong Shao...