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Seven Days Leave (Paramount). The only change besides the title which the producers have made in Sir James Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals is the suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting...
Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
...60th Division, some with their legs in the road and their heads in the ditch, twisted into ghastly contortions, utterly exhausted, racked with malaria and dysentery. With us marched our comrades of Allenby's Desert Mounted Corps, the many regiments of Australian Light Horse, regiments of lean gaunt men from whose lives pestilence had exacted more than wounds and trench warfare...
Remaining was still the usual possibility: an All-California final between Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs. But all unexpectedly, it became international, for England's gaunt Mrs. Phoebe Watson in her semi-final match against Helen Jacobs, drove deep low arcs, came seldom...
...impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing...