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JOHN W. KNOX Quartermaster Sergeant, U. S. M. C. Denver, Colorado...
From Peshawar, on India's northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
Keith's "The Case of Sergeant Grischa". Reviewed in this issue...
...Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO). When this story was published as a novel in the U. S. a year ago it was hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous...
...even suggested that buckets of water be set about the Senate floor so that brave members might quickly douse any explosive tossed from the galleries. Senators complained that they were being mysteriously spied upon, that their offices had been ransacked at night. A counter espionage was established by Sergeant at Arms Barry. The Senate wing side door was locked and all visitors had to file through a single entrance under the sharp inspection of special guards. Night sessions on the tariff only added to members' nervous apprehension...