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...prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed protests from Louisianans against the land compensations provided under flood control...
...Paramount). A band of crooks, recruited from the best talent of the legitimate stage, robs gullible ladies who come for messages from the dead, until one real ghost, through the mouth of brilliant Claudette Colbert, gives away the gang's secret. Best shot: a kidnaped baby on a wharf-ladder...
...Tillett, originally a bricklayer, progressed through shoemaking and sailoring to become General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...
...health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think. Soon he wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life, a one-acter, Bound East for Cardiff. Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan, then editors of the rascally Smart Set, accepted three plays for publication. Critic Nathan, notorious, noisy, can always say, truthfully, he recognized the good wine of genius...
...yacht was backing away from her wharf in Sydney, Nova Scotia, early one morning last week. Suddenly her superstructure, just forward of her one funnel, shook and belched with the flames of a violent explosion. An engineer staggered on deck, his face broiled, clothes hanging in sooty tatters. The fire, racing aft, drove two half-dressed women out of their cabin. They were badly roasted stumbling to the wharf. A man with a dory rescued the captain's young son from where he was marooned on the burning quarterdeck...