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...from home in 1915 having completed but one year of high school; 1916 found him a soldier in the U. S. Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer cold. Horrified, he discovered he had floored his Lieutenant, a court-martial offense. From the guardhouse he was released to fight at Seicheprey...
...CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES-Leo Bruce-Stokes ($2). Three famed detectives solve a seemingly impossible murder but with three different results, and Sergeant Beef, of the local police, triumphs over Scotland Yard...
...they wait for the exchange party to show up. A court-martial condemns to death a captured Rebel and an old man who helped insurgents. A prostitute promises to reform, help the government cause. A man quarrels with his son for joining the milicianos, then volunteers himself. The sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage to shoot him anyway. With their leader dead, the milicianos rush to their sandbag wall and laugh...
...smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators...
...Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's friends called him a "long beard." When he returned to the attack wearing false whiskers (see cut), they silenced him by voting to have any legislator with a beard of more than six inches taken out by the sergeant-at-arms and shaved...