Word: commandeering
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...billboards outside advertise the name of Emil Jannings, there is a good show within. This phenomenon of the silver screen, this certainty of a good picture, is assured by no other name that we know of except Jannings, and he has fulfilled his promises as usual in "The Last Command" appearing at the Metropolitan this week...
...period of physical and mental exhaustion, and again he is liable to become discouraged though not nearly so prone to give up struggle. A week or more of this experience and the candidate settles down into his late competition stride. His time and news sources are well organized, his command of journalistic style is rapidly developing and he finds himself turning off and amazing amount of work with an case which a month earlier he would have believed impossible. And it is often in this last stage that the obscure, inexperienced candidate of the first few weeks...
...majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves of less experienced troops and forge their mettle...
Already the notorious General Chang Tsung-chang has seized foodstuffs sent to relieve the spreading famine in Shantung and Chihli. The "War Lords" have, more over, complete command of the railways and canals, thus increasing the difficulty of getting U. S. food shipments through intact to starving civilian Chinese. In such circumstances famine relief can be only a desperate stop-gap measure, which must try to save simply "as many lives as possible" until China settles down politically, a process sure to require many heart-breaking years...
...cast includes many incongruous but no unsuccessful impersonations. Noah Beery is the lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt...