Life in the Foreign Legion
A firsthand account of Bel-Abbes recruits and life in the French Foreign Legion. The author describes diverse origins among new troops, the brutal march across desert terrain, discipline and drink, the Village Negro and Street of the Women, and a notorious Austrian mystery involving a missing heir to a fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French Foreign Legion
Bel-Abbes
Legion—la Brave Legion
Africa
France
Belgium
Legion
Compagnie de Discipline
Pinard
Booze
Bel- Abbes
Paris
Schantz
Vienna
Bell Syndicate
WNN Servier
Beatrice Gilbert Trials At MGM For National Velvet Test
Hollywood gossip notes Lea trice Joy Gilbert, thirteen, daughter of Leatrice Joy and the late John Gilbert, tests at MGM for National Velvet amid studio attention. From Fox to Columbia, stars discuss child-raising and directing, while John Ford boxes actors who insist on their own takes.
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Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Leatrice Joy
John Gilbert
Garho
Miss Gilbert
National Velvet
Beatrice
Hollywood
Ginger Hogers
Katherine Hepburn
Reo Studio
Twentieth Century - Fox
Virginia Bruce
Lucretla Young
Columbia
Grace Moore
John Ford
NBC
Doris Weston
Warner Brothers
Marine
Ben Bernie
Walter Winchell
Joas Crawford
Nancy Carroll
Ray Milland
Clousette Colbert
Gene Attiry
Western Newspaper Union
New Dress Patterns for Girls and Fabrics Shown
The sewing circle promotes patterns 1341 1349 and 1828 with sizes 12 to 20 and children’s 4 6 10. Instructions promise easy step by step sewing and material lists for gingham silk crepe broadcloth and percale. Patterns cost 15 cents and orders go to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 149 New Montgomery Ave San Francisco California.
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Milady
Little Sis
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery Ave
San Francisco
Calif
Self Syndicate
WNU
Father Grants Penny to Crying Man in Humorous Wedding Scene
In a light filled vignette Willie asks his father for a penny for a poor man crying outside. The father obliges and learns the man cries for ice cream with a penny each. At the wedding supper the groom proclaims their marriage has never had a cross word.
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Willie
Father
Wille
Goldfish Lesson Sparks… Rich Sardine Joke
In a nature lesson a teacher places a bowl of goldfish on the table. Teddy answers that a goldfish is “a sardine that has got rich,” a humorous misdefinition reflecting classroom chatter.
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Ann Sothern
Joan Bennett
Ann
Shakespeare
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Claudette Colbert
Carole Lombard
Teddy
Fly in the Ointment and A Farmer's Complaints
A light humor piece contrasts a quarrel about carpet laying with a wise farmer who admits good weather and skill yield big crops but worry that such crops strain the soil. The exchange highlights a satirical take on contentment and hidden costs of success.
Quotations On Enemies Prejudice And Progress
A collage of quotes from Cheen D. Young Vicki Baus Viscount Snowden Sir James Barrie Charles Schwab Albert Einstein. The passages reflect on misfortune training progress and respecting individuals while challenging precedents and idolization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheen D. Young
Vicki Baus
Viscount Snowden
James 1. Barrie
Charles AT
Schwab
Albert Einstein
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Life IN the Foreign Legion
Richard Halliburton
the Royal
Romancé
Efc
Colomb Bechar
Foreign A Legionnaires
STAR DUST Movie + Radio
Virginia Vale
Reko
Jack Oakie
Sonja Henie
Norway
Tyrone Power
Sonja
Tyrone
Janet Gaynor
Loretta Young
Ginger Rogers
Sonja Reine
Chic
Ft TE Sy
Photography
Rolls
Pain Ra Peints
Northwest Photo Service
Farge Wma Nort
Ousbiees Properties
BEE Hive Realty, Inc
Beason Building
Salt Lake
Salt Lakes
Temple Square
Ernest Crossiter
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