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William Roerick, in the part of Algernon Moncrieff, a sort of prototype of Bertie Wooster, is a little too much the romantic lover and not enough of the playboy. Ainsworth Arnold supplies a refreshing blast of unctuous lechery as the Rev. Canon Chasuble...
Died. Evelina du Pont, 98, sister of the late U. S. Senator Henry Algernon du Pont; of old age; in Greenville...
Scoop, his latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents...
When a vote was taken on whether the Locker-Lampson bill should be admitted to first reading, the House exactly divided 144-10-144, creating the first tie in the Mother of Parliaments since 1910. Amid laughter the Speaker, Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, broke the tie by casting his vote in favor of one of the most novel pieces of jurisprudence ever introduced...
...bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall. As his London produce business prospered, Thomas James Wise bought more & more books, became known as Britain's foremost book collector and bibliographer. He was a friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome-browed Thomas James Wise was considered...