Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis called for "a frank declaration by the U.S. of its willingness to accept the implications and responsibilities'' embodied in its various anti-war treaties...
...Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
Sherriff, 32, dark, slender, taciturn, was an insurance broker. He knew little of playwriting but he said he would try. The only drama he knew was the War. He had enlisted at 17 and emerged a second lieutenant. He sat down and wrote the story of a dugout in which he had lived. The play was produced. Friends said it was good. At their urging he sent it off to the London managers. One by one they turned it down...
Thus the story of Journey's End. The plot itself is not nearly so involved. It is a simple war story of ten men in a dugout during 36 hours that precede a German attack. Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person...
Mons (British) is a news-story of the retreat of the English Army, known to their opponents as "The Contemptibles," from Mons to the Marne. Lacking the realism of such War pictures as Gold Chevrons, and Behind the German Lines, parts of which were taken in battle, its photographic effectiveness does not make up for conventional directing and for the stressing of isolated episodes at the expense of the main narrative. Maps might have given a sense of the unseen enemy pushing back the actual army, now dead, of which these actors are the equivalents. As it is, the soldiers...