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...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...
Discontinued. The famed architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings (Manhattan), builders of New York Public Library, Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier. Reason: the death of Partner Thomas Hastings (TIME, Nov. 4). Partner John Merven Carrere died...
...Hill. The hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook...
...expressly enjoined that he be given no state funeral. Scrupulously were his wishes observed. But six days after the sod was tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither...
Recent and as yet unpublished studies of a star cloud in Aquila show that practically all the stars are of the same type as the sun--a very unusual circumstance, since Milky Way stars elsewhere have mainly been of the hotter classes. It is unknown whether this anomalous result, which involves tens of thousands of stars, means that we have here a star cloud of dwarfs like the sun, or if it means that we are dealing with a peculiar assemblage of yellowish giant stars at a special stage in the evolution of a stellar system...