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Significance. Since the present Free State executive council or "cabinet" has only 46 supporters in the Dail Eireann (lower chamber) of 153, the entrance of 45 De Valera deputies seemed to promise the swift overthrow of President Cosgrave whose office corresponds exactly to that of "Premier...
...toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from his mouth and volleys of bullets coursing from his gun, Powell shoots down the comrade whom he thought he was avenging...
...Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...
...absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...
...crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living" her songs, so that they take on dramatic...