Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title which the producers have made in Sir James Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is the suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer) picked...
...National indoor tennis championship (men's singles and doubles), at 7th Regiment Armory, Manhattan...
...National indoor tennis championship (men's singles and doubles), 7th Regiment Armory, Manhattan...
...bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha-a big, dark woman who laughs hysterically as her desires mount above her repressions and who whimpers like a wounded animal when her lover departs. Chekhov's humans are like impatient beasts of burden who see vaguely beyond their beastliness. Each is forever...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...