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Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...
...remembrance of the limpid and heroic page made sacred by the sacrifice of our martyrs," said suave Count Ignazio Thaon di Revel, "the banners and histories of the chapters will be offered to the historical museum of Fascism...
...Willoughby brings out in an anthoritative manner the circumstances under which many of the lighthouses were first suggested, engineering difficulties which in several cases threatened failure, disasters to lighthouse property and personnel, heroic deeds of keepers in times of peril to their lives, and many local legends. Among the most interesting aspects of this volume are the many stories of human interest which are scattered throughout the pages and their interplay with the histories of the lighthouses themselves. While thus making the work invaluable for reference purposes Mr. Willoughby has been able to avoid loading down his pages with dull...
...history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
Headquarters. William Farnum, whose pompadour, jaw and chest expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing...