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...half-wit son of the French King. Miss Davies manages two roles. She weeps artistically over a handsome suitor, but the story leaves you calm. Despite great pictorial beauty and a squad of villains, the picture has no drive. It is a gorgeous military parade, with armies in armor and battlements for lighter relief...
Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
Films made at the TutankhAmen tomb were shown to the trustees, but will not yet be given to the public. Another film showed the practical uses of mediaeval armor...
...Winnipeg, one Stanley Carlson equipped himself with a cowhide suit covered with spikes an inch long, announced his intention of departing soon for Port Arthur to slay wolves by clouting them on the head with an axe while they nibble at his armor...
Navy Department. Secretary Denby urged the need of $30,000,000 for modernizing the fleet, the building of eight 10,000-ton cruisers, three cruising submarines, $7,676,000 for naval bases and a five year building program for the naval air force. The modernization program includes heavier deck armor for aeroplane defense, blisters for hulls as protection from torpedoes and bombs, and the much disputed proposal to increase the elevation of naval guns...