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...what I want whether you like it or not and those that don't can get the hell out of the B. E. F. I'm going to be hardboiled! If any man in the B. E. F. refuses to carry out my orders he will be dragged out of Washington by the military police. To hell with civil law and General Glassford! I'm going to have my orders carried...
...police won't support us, we'll boot them to Hell!" screamed Herr Edmund Heines, a Fascist member of the German Reichstag speaking at Breslau. "In one month we'll be the police...
...grew taut with apprehension. What would these idle, ragged men, ghosts of the A. E. F., do next? Police Chief Glassford of the District of Columbia suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear was that homeward-bound veterans, hungry, penniless, desperate...
Merrily We Go to Hell (Paramount). This is about a colyumist (Fredric March) who differs from the other two because he has a home and is not much concerned with murdered racketeers. He marries the daughter (Sylvia Sidney) of a packing millionaire, after meeting her behind a row of bottles at a penthouse. He grieves her by getting drunk inopportunely. He is drunk when they meet, drunk at her announcement party, slightly addled for their wedding, in a partial stupor on the night that his play, a "satiric comedy" in Restoration costume, has its premiere. "Merrily we go to hell...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...