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Coincident with the declaration of war came, for home consumption, reports of a great Paraguayan victory: at Fort Gondra a heavy attack had been launched, masses of Bolivian munitions captured, and the Bolivian Campero regiment "virtually annihilated." All this was promptly denied by Bolivian headquarters. Meanwhile the first U. S. correspondent to visit the actual battle front in the Chaco, Anthony Patric of the Chicago Daily Tribune, had his first report published in the U. S. He wrote...
...betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting...
...living in Grand Rapids where his father worked in the postoffice, when he showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four. He got leave to go but when he returned to the regiment the bandmaster reprimanded him roundly, told him he knew...
Slowly the drama developed. The Prisoner was Norman Baillie-Stewart, 24, a lieutenant in the aristocratic Seaforth Highlanders, a regiment still known north of the Tweed as the Ross-shire Buffs, whose Colonel-in-Chief is Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
...Maria Remarque; and after some preliminary remarks about "All Quiet on the Western Front," Mr. Lewis pitches into the real interest of the modern critic, the author's life and personality. Investigation has shown him that in 1919 Remarque wore a uniform of a Lieutenant of the 91st Infantry Regiment, whereas the President of the Reichs-archiv has officially denied that his name appears on record. And ten years later he was calling himself Frieherr von Buchwald, known as Remark, and had a coronet on his visiting card. He then compares Remarque's account of the World War to Uncle...