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Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky von Hoffmannsthal Harding, 34 (daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor, sister of Vincent); and David Pleydell-Bouverie, 34, U.S.-naturalized grandson of the late British munitions tycoon Albert Vickers; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Reading...
...Lady Astor, addressing clubwomen in Richmond: "Young people of today hardly know right from wrong. . . . Older people must put them to thinking right. . . ." On men in general: "The men of today can get away with murder...
...redcoat, rose to the occasion. It was a political parable about two youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime out again and tell...
...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...
...permission of the copyright owner, Chappell & Co., Ltd. *An A.P.H. anecdote: Once, when Lady Astor scolded a crapulous and corpulent M.P. for "pouring that awful poison into your stomach," he replied: "Madam, I have been drinking this stuff for many years, and I would be glad to put my stomach against yours...