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...attack on Pantelleria was a valuable lesson in modern military tactics. The conclusive effect of air bombardment plus sea blockade was proved. Further proof came when other tinier and also isolated islands fell. Bomb-shaken Lampedusa gave up to a startled R.A.F. flight-sergeant, Sidney Cohen, when his torpedo plane made an emergency landing. Linosa Avith 140 troops surrendered when the British destroyer Nubian appeared. Lampione soon joined the parade...
With Gandhi went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last...
...which accounts for about 2% of the business. Reo's famed Speed Wagons and heavy-duties run about 1 % in the registration figures. Studebaker and Willys each make a few thousand yearly, and the rest of the truck makers share a tiny market that is growing tinier. Prosperity returned only to the makers of light trucks last year...
Three-quarters of a century ago the itinerant American could spend a summer wandering from tiny principality to tinier duchy, in the district made famous in literature by the late Miss Yonge, and could cross, during his peregrinations, at least half a dozen boundary lines. Such places as Sagan and Liechtenstein were not names, but independencies, each with its own little ruler, here a duke and there a baron, and its own code of customs...
...actors (a few brief shots). An entire company was transplanted to Rome for the proceedings. Somewhere in the crowd was a singularly capable cameraman who managed to recapture for the screen much of the pictorial splendor that was Rome's. Unhappily the story is a badly battered old tinier. A story that Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, Richard Bennett and Benito Mussolini can't save, must be not only old but moribund...