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Last week passenger Vittorio contributed an article to the news organ Tricolor. Honest, he admitted: "I closed my eyes for a minute. . . . When I opened them we were up high. . . ." Enthusiastic, he fairly crowed: "I am a real flyer now and I hope father will let me go up again soon...
...translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic relief by the inevitable Jewish...
...Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor which was slowly hauled down. More commands, and off to a local railway station moved the troops. The Ruhr occupation,* begun on the orders of Premier Poincaré on Jan. 11, 1923, came to an end after 2 years, 6 months and 20 days. Germans were unimpressed. There were...
...long as the Tricolor keeps its color, it will protect from violence and exaction peoples it has promised to protect...
...funeral was one of great simplicity. His coffin was laid on a gun carriage, covered with the Tricolor and drawn first to the Chapelle des Invalides, then to the Cemetery of Montparnasse...