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Bruno Richard Hauptmann was born at Kamenz, Germany, served as a machine-gunner in a Saxon regiment during the War. In 1919 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for theft. Released in 1923, he was again arrested for theft, escaped while waiting trial. That same year he arrived in the U. S. as a stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift...
...cheerless birthday party took place in white-haired Commissioner O'Ryan's office. An oldtime militiaman, John Francis O'Ryan joined New York's smart 7th Regiment in 1897, was abruptly promoted from major to major general commanding all State troops in 1912. In 1916 he led the New York national guardsmen to the Mexican border, two years later went to France at the head of the 27th Division. He served with distinction, was the only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed...
...mobilized this week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce's messenger boy at international conferences...
...Duce himself will dash from post to post to see that all of them are on their toes. The first day of maneuvers caught him in the Futa Pass in the Apppenines just as a regiment of cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...
...with strigils while plotting to kill Caesar is the biggest that has ever appeared in a DeMille picture, but the battle scene fails to set any record. This is because Antony's officers have deserted him and he has nothing left but a few re- painted chariots and a regiment or two of Egyptians. When these have been hacked, speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left all alone. He stabs himself, lives long enough to quote to Cleopatra Shakespeare's "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" Cleopatra puts on her best clothes and calls...