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...Famed young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
...Lady Astor. only female entrant in the Parliamentary golf tournament at Walton Heath, Surrey: her fourth round match against Lord Balfour of Burleigh. who has won the tournament twice in the last six years...
Engaged. Elizabeth Brinton Kent, daughter of Arthur Atwater Kent (radios) of Philadelphia; and William Laurens Van Alen,* member of the Oxford-Cambridge tennis team which played against Yale-Harvard at Newport in 1929, descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, grandson of the late Ambassador to Italy James J. Van Alen...
...funny as the slightly Semitic Southern girl in her travesty on Strictly Dishonorable, but not so funny in a maudlin recitation of Dorothy Parker's Telephone Call. Mr. Baker trades gags with his fat friend in a box, sings an ingratiating song called "Under The Clock At The Astor," indicating with his stick "females and he-males and she-males, and girls who bear loneliness well." Attention is called to the best of Crazy Quilt's songs, "In the Merry Month of Maybe," in which Ira Gershwin and Mr. Rose have taken the utmost advantage of lyricist...
...Behind Office Doors" should have been a shorter picture by several hundred feet, for at times it drags intolerably. And one is very apt to leave the theatre with the unkind feeling that if one doesn't see Miss Astor until a year from next Michelmas one is likely to survive...