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When war with Spain was declared (April, 1898), Surgeon General Sternberg had already arranged to appoint women as army nurses serving under contract with the government. Selection of these nurses was put in my hands, and in August when about 1,000 women had entered the service, I was placed on duty directly under him as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the organization of which began at once. Before the end of '98, members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other...
DISHONORED?Routine spy story redeemed by Marlene Dietrich and Director Josef von Sternberg...
...yard breast stroke--Won by R. H. Joseph '31; second, J. S. Hartwell '32; third, M. S. Sternberg '31; fourth, M. McMichael '33. Time...
...much heralded Marlene Dietrich has at last come to Boston in Josef Von Sternberg's latest production, "Morocco". This new German star appears to be a combination of Greta Garbo and Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...
...direction by Von Sternberg is impressive as always. In the small use of conversation or rather the absence of it at times, the manner of unraveling the story becomes a matter of keen interest rather than a recitation by a story teller. The photography is excellent; the use of light and shadow of the vine shaded streets on the marching Foreign Legion being particularly effective...