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...Highway No. 1 and turned south. A lumbering ammunition train, supplied by Remington Arms Co. and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., brought up the rear. At the head of the long column as it swung along through the misty morning rode General Butler with his high command. Straddling a charger was that grim, oldtime cavalryman, General Hugh Samuel Johnson. General Douglas MacArthur, who only a year before had been the Army's Chief of Staff, trotted jauntily beside him. Behind them clop-clopped three past commanders of the American Legion - Hanford MacNider, Louis Johnson and Henry Stevens...
...Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela's Irishman is shellshocked, dies. Years later, when she has grown old and dumpy, Irela...
...Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 19--A bold plan for "an invasion into Bolivian territory" was formulated by the Paraguayan high command tonight, elated by victory in the Gran Chaco border...
Then came the Lord Chancellor's writ of summons in the King-Emperor's name: "We strictly enjoin and command you to be faithful to the allegiance by which you are bound...