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...BOOK OF MODERN GHOSTS (236 pp.) -Edited by Cynthia Asquith-Scribner...
Died. Sir Edward Marsh, 80, scholar bachelor, longtime (1896-1937) British civil servant, who became known as "Whitehall's perfect private secretary" for his service to Churchill, Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain and Malcolm MacDonald in London. Falling in with London's literary crowd, "Eddie" Marsh established reputation as conversationalist, first-nighter art collector, translator of the odes of Horace and the fables of La Fontaine, autobiographer (A Number of People) and editor (1912-21) of five volumes of Georgian Poetry. For his service to the -rown and to letters, he was knighted in 1937 by George...
Adapter-Director Anthony (Pygmalion} Asquith has given a studiedly high tone to Wilde's comedy by staging it with a straight face and a grand air. There are richly Technicolored sets and costumes...
Invited to sit at War Cabinet meetings in London, he swore and hammered the table for more action. When Prime Minister Herbert Asquith demurred, Hughes shouted: "I have a policy! You don't! If you expect me to sit like a stuffed dummy while there's a war to be won, you've picked the wrong man." Said Earl Balfour: "How I detest him!" But young Winston Churchill called him "a man of fire and comprehension, head and shoulders above his fellows...
Bemelman's Cucuface is a practicing continental, edition of Potter's Asquith, a man who almost never pays the dinner check, a man who rides first class and doesn't pay. After explaining to Bemelman's the importance of being important, he tags him le Prince de Baviere, and teaches him the way of the gambit...