Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play is too much of a unit to be able to attribute its success to any individual members of the cast. Of Course, there could never be anyone but Helen Morgan to take the part of Julie. No one from the vantage point of a piano top could carry the magnetic thrill of her personality to every member of the audience, as she sings that oddly sentimental song, "Bill," for which incidentally, P. G. Wodehouse, wrote the lyric...
...your information Reri has been deported by the U. S. immigration department and sailed from New York Oct.1. She had been touring the U. S. in a Fanchon & Marco unit and while she was playing the Fox Theater in Brooklyn she was taken out of the show by the immigration officers. The unit still had about ten weeks to run before her contract...
...Kosciuszko Squadron was the first military aviation unit to base on a railroad train. Headquarters, repair shops, bunks were set up in box cars to provide the mobility that Polish campaigns demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis as the Poles. First casualty occurred when Lieut. Graves flew the wings off his Albatross during a review for bushy-browed Marshal Pilsudski, plummeted to his death in the midst of Lwow...
Because Russia's air force was negligible (during two years' fighting the Squadron saw but one enemy plane), it was at first thought that reconnoitering would be the Kosciuszko unit's principal job. But as the sweeping, open warfare grew more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine...
Pilot Cooper was shot down in the retreat but when surrounded by Cossacks he said he was an enlisted man, showed his hands, calloused and blistered from overhauling motors. After a year in foul Russian prisons, he miraculously escaped and returned to the unit. Pilot Cooper later wrote for the New York Times, then set out to film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate...