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...work of Ben Welles, Stanley Miller, '38, and Alan Lerner, '39. The latter two also had a hand in writing the words for them, and were assisted by David Lannon '39. The words do not scintillate, nor will the tunes be indefinitely revived, but at least "Came the Dawn" and "Rainbow in the Sky" are quite agreeable numbers...
After delegates of 21 nations had been greeted in Cairo's Royal Opera House by 15 kind words from King Farouk, the I. O. C.'s president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria...
...Dawn Over, Ireland," the first picture completely produced and acted in the Emerald Isle is chiefly interesting for its realistic portrayal of the dark days following the Easter Rebellion of 1916, when the small Irish Republican Army was doggedly twisting the British Lion's tail. A trifle Algeresque, the plot tells how a young Irish patriot (Brian O'Sullivan), suspected of being an "informer" by his mates, is ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead...
Behind patrols of tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
...plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...