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...Last week at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major found stolid, grey-thatched Captain Ralph E. Fleischer guilty of violating three Articles of War. Because he embezzled from the U. S. Army icebox two chickens, pickles, assorted vegetables, two slabs of cheese and other victuals; because he gave false answers at a previous investigation; and because he bullied enlisted men and made them "keep their mouths shut," his senior officers sentenced this Quartermaster Corps captain to dismissal from the service. Pending review...
...lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose his virtual dictatorship. Unbowed by defeat, he admits the wrong, dies quietly just...
...spectators have any knowledge of the character of Pasteur to act as a check on the performance of Muni. But the stolid determination, the unflagging perseverance, and the simple kindliness so ably portrayed by Muni jibe nicely with the popular conception of what the quite genius must have been. The plot as well as the character keep a close grip on fact. A vivid notion is given of the stern battle of a humble scientist against ignorance, fantasy, and professional bigotry. Coupled with the accuracy, however, there is a most judicious selection of dramatic incident. Foremost in this line...
...rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we are setting up today...
...point out is that Richardson himself was very seldom Richardsonian. His best buildings: the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, Harvard's Sever Hall, the Albany City Hall, Boston's Brattle Square Church ("The Church of the Holy Bean Blowers"). These were heavyset, impressive buildings befitting a stolid age, but all were well-planned, magnificently proportioned and still serve as an inspiration to young architects...