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Dear Jane (by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley; Civic Repertory Theatre, producer). ''Acting," wrote Novelist Jane Austen, "seldom satisfied me." It is inconceivable that either the acting or the playwriting of Dear Jane, a dramatic biography of clever Novelist Austen, would have satisfied her. Seldom if ever has the capable Civic Repertory company dulled its fine tools on material so obdurate...
...Joseph Austen Chamberlain, today 68, who retired with the Garter after winning the Nobel Peace Prize as British Foreign Secretary (TIME...
From the Flames. Tall and purposeful Chancellor Chamberlain faced the world last week resolved to play a role not smaller than that which his brother Austen attempted at Locarno. Today the "Locarno Spirit" of European goodwill is dead, killed by Depression and cremated by the flames of nationalism. Out of these flames (and high tariffs are a fiery essence of nationalism) Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain hopes to extract with honor not only the Empire but the world. Toward the U. S. cold Neville is studiously friendly, never tires of assuring British doubters that U. S. currency is safe & sound...
...news. Several years ago bullet-headed Herr Stresemann lunched with his good friend Aristide Briand in Geneva and at one remark of Brer Briand's gave vent to a laugh that rattled the champagne glasses. What was the story? Reporters have wondered for years. Last week Sir Austen Chamberlain told the press what M. Briand said he said to his friend Stresemann...
...never seen George Arliss break a monocle. Worn first as an affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed a groove into his right cheek, has long since been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with charm. A vegetarian, because it hurts his conscience to eat anything he might have patted, Cinemactor Arliss wears high shoes, likes slang, has never driven...