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...article regarding the motion picture entitled The Big Drive. I take particular exception to this picture because having seen it I realize that portions of it are not authentic in certain respects. There is a section of the film which deals with the bombardment of the famous Cloth Hall. Ypres. The scene purporting to show the actual bombardment of this famous building is not true in any sense of the word. The building has no resemblance as shown to the real thing and is a mislabeled shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...searchlights over England; a chaplain walking through an evacuated battleground, making rapid gestures over minced bodies. There are good sequences of Italian soldiers scampering wildly in retreat across a bridge under shell fire; prisoners lolling about and scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener. Elsie Janis. Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Clemenceau. the Crown Prince, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Producer Albert L. Rule, who was a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Edward Livingston Burrill Jr.; Mrs. Richard Trimble; Florence Loew. Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George has three children: Evelyn Bligh St. George: George Baker St. George (who has a daughter, Priscilla); Robert Cecil St. George (who has a son, Robert). A third son, Howard Bligh St. George was killed at Ypres while leading a British cavalry charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Last Titan | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Married. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Earl of Ypres; onetime fiancée of Henry Bradley Martin Jr. of Manhattan; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Field Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London. In 1926 Miss French was engaged to Henry Bradley Martin, Manhattan socialite. In 1929 she rushed to the U. S. to minister to him after he was injured in an automobile accident in Colorado. The engagement was subsequently broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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