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...Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry cobras. Typical sequence...
...advisers") of about 40.000 more. And there is a police force of 20,000 men trained to arms. Commander-in-Chief of the army in India is handsome, grey-haired General Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode. As a cavalryman, he was serving in Burma the year young Rudyard Kipling published Barrack-room Ballads. Under General Sir Edmund Allenby he commanded the 20th Army Corps at the capture of Jerusalem. In 1928 he became Chief of the Indian General Staff, in 1930 succeeded Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood as C.-in-C. His job last week was to keep the army...
...huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling for the life of the Red State...
...Hopkins, the respectable producer, was a little ashamed of the God damns and Jesus Christs in the dialogue, and he apologized in the playbill. . . . Mr. Arthur Krock, who is an editorial companion of the authors on the staff of The New York World, describes their play as a barrack-room ballad. . . .1 thought that Miss Leyla Georgie's characterization of a, frail French girl, skipping gracefully from marine to marine, was a little masterpiece...
...Reading from "Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads," "The Seven Seas," and "The Five Nations." Mr. Copeland. Sever...