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...from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring him out of the forest dead, all his fine clothes gone except...
Herbert is the more conspicuous of San Francisco's two famed Fleishhacker brothers and is generally thought to take the lead when they confer on mighty matters. People know him better because he is always doing things that command attention, because he is the one apt to be found at teas or dances when his brother Mortimer is at home reading...
...work to help "Speed" snap out of the doldrums after the crash. Oakie is right in his element here and the two best sequences are rough-house scenes between the two pals. The female members of the cast fail to show much initiative, moving mechanically at the director's command. The audience remains well-pleased, however, as the story runs smoothly and maintains its happy-go-lucky atmosphere throughout...
Lioutenant-Commander Paul R. Glutting, U. S. N., assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, left today for San Diego, California, where he is to take command of the U.S.S. Nautilus, the largest submarine in the United States Navy, and the second largest submarine in the world. A French submersible exceeds it by a little...
Lieutenant Commander Glutting came to Harvard in the Spring of 1930, and has had charge of instruction in Gunnery. Formerly he was Gunnery officer on the battleship Florida, and between 1924 and 1926 was naval aide to President Coolidge and was attached to the Presidential yacht Mayflower. He commanded the submarine R-4 after the War, and later was given command of one of the S-type submarines...