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...Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced...
...Philadelphia one day last week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled...
Four miles back chugged the Blankenburg. While Patrolman Corliss dried himself in the Harbor Patrol's office, police statisticians computed salaries, fuel, wear & tear, concluded that the rescue had cost Philadelphia $250. Then they sat down to try. to figure out what to do with...
Keith-Boston--"The Lost Patrol". Shilling shocker with Victor McLaglen. Long and moderately diverting stage show of the abortive musical type designed for the movie palaces...
...Lost Patrol," one may gather, is no movie for a high strung female. Death, so discussed, without the comic relief of idiotic foamings and writhings, is at best a trifle unpleasant. And one is bound to remark that whatever the director has neglected, in his enlightenment, on the one end, he has made up on the other. As if carelessly, the reader is introduced to, and comes to like each of the characters. It is a hard thing to keep eleven men separate in a story like this, where all are equipped alike, and where the stars are bound...