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...Ralph Inge ("My name rhymes with king, not binge"), K.C.V.O., F.B.A., D.D., was born in 1860 at Crayke, Yorkshire, with enough clerical antecedents to staff a cathedral. He was one of the brightest scholars in Cambridge history and was a professor of divinity there in 1911 when Prime Minister Asquith appointed him to the deanery...
...face his first political crisis, the curbing of the House of Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords gave...
...Importance of Being Earnest is a delightful elaboration of a pun by Oscar Wilde. Adapted for the screen by John Davis, and directed by Anthony Asquith, the play loses nothing in the transition. In fact, the camera might have focused directly on the stage production, for it avoids any distant, or off-angle shots, and yet is never static...
...anthology do not have the shudder value of the old bloody-head and clinking-chain school. Instead of haunting damp Ruddigorean castles, most contemporary ghosts seem to have settled into fashionable flats, where they play hob with the call bells and the central heating. Moreover, the authors in Editor Asquith's collection have adulterated an old-fashioned art form with Freudian complexes and social crisis; they have forgotten that the one thing a ghost story does not need is a rational explanation...
...English ghosts in general nowadays tend to be literary and neurotic. One is a "novelist of sensibility" with a Virginia Woolf style; another worries, "Am I losing weight?" Among the best of Editor Asquith's pieces...