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...would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington. 2) An excess profits tax, hated by Tories the world over and first levied in Britain in 1915 by the Asquith Government and continued until 1921 by David Lloyd George to hit war-profiteers, will be reintroduced under the euphemistic head of "the national defense contributions." This will be raised "during Britain's rearming years on the growth of profits from "all persons and firms engaged in industry, trade...
...boiler, Boston has never had such a good time in its traditional macabre manner. But the current scavenger hunt for the missing "mutilated torso" has them all beat for journalistic interest. It is certain that if Charles Dickens were living today his words would be, "Oops, there goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which the affair is viewed show an interesting cross-section. The church may look down its nose, and the Boston American may strike new heights of photographic grandeur, but the attitude of a Leverett House goodie has the wistful tone we like best...
...with a cheap U. S. Kodak, still prefers it to the more "professional" cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received...
Marked by the scrupulous accuracy in sets characteristic of current British productions and the over-dignified pace characteristic of less recent ones, I Stand Condemned is principally notable for its personnel. Its director was Anthony Asquith, bright young offspring of onetime Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. Its heroine is Socialite Penelope Dudley-Ward. Its hero, the profiteer Brioukov, is Harry Baur, most famed cinemactor in France, making his English-speaking screen debut...
...light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were all there together. Enthused the Daily Mail...