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Near Bardia, a handful of fugitive Italians disappeared into a coastal cave. A British sergeant called a colonel from his swim, and while the colonel, clad only in his slippers, stood guard with revolver at the entrance, the sergeant wriggled into the cave, shooting. Out crawled the Italians, among them Francesco Argentina, erstwhile commander of Sidi Barrani, eleventh Italian general to be captured in the British attack on Libya. For three days the general went on a hunger strike, then ate, wailed: "For all I care about this desert, you can have it! I myself am a poet...
...Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest, and occasionally almost as bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output...
None of the parts requires special machinery; even the bolts could be made in carload lots by any first-class machine shop. Blurted an Army sergeant who fired the gun, "Good God, it's so simple I could manufacture it myself." Harrington & Richardson bragged that it would produce 500 a day by next month, 1,000 a day by April. The U. S. Army made no commitments, but Army Ordnance predicted that the new gun "will play no small part in military events of the future...
...took the centre of the stage, in the title role of Donizetti's Don Pasquale: a waddling, foolish old party, so much put upon that when he got slapped by a soprano minx he touched real pathos. Last week Baccaloni waddled again, this time as walrus-mustached Sergeant Sulpice in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment-and his reputation was made in Manhattan...
...City Council of Burlington, N. J. complained that Pennsylvania Railroad trains were breaking the city speed limit of 5 m.p.h. A police sergeant clocked them as high as 15 or 20 m.p.h...