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...songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire Infantry...
...This gang has worked harder this week than they have ever worked before in their lives," said Coach Herbert after yesterday afternoon's work-out, and everyone will be in top condition Saturday providing there are no injuries tomorrow. Every day this week, the squad has taken four laps around the outside of the Stadium at the start of practice and three laps at the close, with three hours of scrimmaging in between...
...fights off a band of Apaches known as "the Pack" while they try to smuggle out of France the secret army plans that nowadays replace the child and the papers in well-built melodrama. It is rather like seeing the head waiter at Sherry's stand off a gang of real tough-mugs from the Bowery. One cannot quite believe it. But one feels properly thrilled at the finish when there is an exciting chase through the clouds that transfers the underworld to the upper world. Then it is that active Jack wins in Dorothy Dalton the girl confederate...
...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...
Rivalry develops among members of the gang for Esther Brinn, 16, respected by all. Meyer becomes jealous. The passion persists even after she joins settlement work and until she marries Barney Finn, Irish reformer-a scandal to all the Jews...