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Anne also gave her name to an elegant era marked by Christopher Wren's architecture, the Queen Anne chair, the thinking of Bishop Berkeley and Isaac Newton and the writings of Swift, Addison, Pope, Steele and Defoe. Personally she was a dull, respectable woman who spent most of her reign swathed in bandages to ease the pain of her gout and dropsy. She produced 15 children but all died, leaving her the last of the royal Stuarts...
Died. Viscount Addison, 82, oldest of Britain's leading politicians; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Radnage, England. Starting out as a physician, he went to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1910, later switched to Socialism, in 13 governments successively became Munitions Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture and Dominion Secretary, and after he got his title, became Labor's leader in the House of Lords...
...crop of good solo voices, Marko Rothmuller, as Jesus, sang with a dignity and dramatic awareness occasionally spoiled by a bovine tone. David Lloyd's tenor was magnificent in the part of the Evangelist, and Adele Addison's soprano had an exquisitely pure tone...
...ADDISON SMITH...
Died. Irving Addison Bacheller, 90, whose optimistic fresh-air tales of upstate New York's "North Country" (Eben Hoiden, Barrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong) were pre-Jazz Age favorites; in White Plains, N.Y. At 40, Bacheller left his job as Sunday editor of Pulitzer's New York World to finish his third novel (his first two were flops), Eben Holden, which sold a million copies and brought him sudden fame...