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Such were the heroic words gasped out by a desperately wounded Italian Colonel during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. Death was, however, not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...motion of the body, the shimmy, is to be seen whirling about in the innocuous curves of the devil dance. While she is not dancing, she makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. Her well-shaped shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray was born in Poland to a poor...
Whereupon someone swooned and wadragged out into the street. Miss Ford supplied the music by singing a snatch of "Cry Baby" from "Helen of Troy, New York...
...weather persistently spat drizzle and squall in the face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off?weather or no weather...
...Hall as Christophus Sly in the Induction and later as Hortensio gives an excellent performance. His portrayal of the considerably inebriated Sly is amusing to a high degree. Lastly, a word must be said for the stage settings. Extremely simple, composed largely of curtains with here and there a snatch of landscape or a facade, they are undeniably beautiful and go no little way toward carrying out the spirit in which the entire performance is conceived