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...Germany's divisional staffs sloshed back and forth in the rain last week, President Paul von Hindenburg wore the last uniform that was his by right, crammed his grizzled head into the spiked pickelhaube of a Field Marshal of the Imperial German army, and motored, soaking wet, from regiment to regiment. At every headquarters he rumbled pertinent questions. When answers pleased lim he nodded vigorously, at other answers he scratched his grey jowls quizzically. Old Paul made no suggestions himself, "for fear," explained his' secretary "of influencing developments...
...Rhapsody concerns itself with the problems of Lodar Baron (Louis Calhern), a Hungarian composer who still harbors a persecution fixation, brought on during the War by a brutal sergeant in his regiment. From time to time the composer disappears to go on informal manhunts when the thought of his onetime superior obsesses him. When the able ministrations of a mistress and a sweetheart are incapable of assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain...
Edmund Charles Blunden, 33, onetime (1924-27) Professor of English literature at Tokyo University, served in the War with the Royal Sussex Regiment. Great & good friend of Poets Robert Graves, Robert Nichols, with them he lived in the Boar's Hill poet's colony (near Oxford) just after the War. Poet Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize in 1922. Other books: The Waggoner, The Shepherd, Masks of Time, Retreat, Undertones...
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan...
...Carol's regiment, the 1st Hussars, fired a royal salute to him who was still "M. Caraiman." Legend had it that he spent the rest of the night drinking and gambling with Prince Nicholas and brother officers?this being the sort of conduct expected and approved by Rumanians in the case of an officer, gentleman or King of spirit...