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Derelict (Paramount). George Bancroft and that William Boyd who, to distinguish him from another star of the same name, is generally referred to as "the incomparable Sergeant Quirt in the stage version of What Price Glory," fight each other in many seaports and on ships for the favors of Jessie Royce Landis. They are first mates on boats of the. same line. Bancroft is the first mate who really loves the girl. Boyd is the nasty first mate. The melodramatic episodes arranged for them are well directed and plausible for this kind of thing. Best shot: a storm...
This fisticuffer's son went soldiering when a sprig of 17, wangled his way up in the hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
Charles Street is called Gabby because he talks a lot. This year he has talked less than usual. He caught for the immortal Walter Johnson with the Washing ton Senators in 1909. During the War he was a tough and talkative top-sergeant. His field strategies are usually extemporaneous but almost always shrewd. He affects no aloofness toward his players but is a strict disciplinarian. He is the first Cardinal manager since 1925 to last more than a year at the job. This is the first time he has managed a team in a world series...
...Rhapsody concerns itself with the problems of Lodar Baron (Louis Calhern), a Hungarian composer who still harbors a persecution fixation, brought on during the War by a brutal sergeant in his regiment. From time to time the composer disappears to go on informal manhunts when the thought of his onetime superior obsesses him. When the able ministrations of a mistress and a sweetheart are incapable of assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain...
...French pacifists compulsory military service in France has been reduced within the past two years from three years to twelve months. As every sergeant knows, a year is net much time to make a soldier. Fortnight ago, just as the French Army was preparing for its annual autumn maneuvers, Minister Maginot announced elaborate and expensive plans for a completely "motorized" force. The French press which always barks obediently when politicians crack the whip took up the chorus. Loudest was the semi-official Temps...