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After speeches by ex-Premier George and ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain, the bill passed its second reading by 291 to 124 votes...
...intimacies are with birds, trees and squirrels." Of Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor. "Lord Birkenhead listens to himself but his brains have gone to his head and he hears confused sounds." Of Stanley Baldwin, ex-Premier. "Stanley Baldwin, though a little perplexed, is unconcerned and enjoys himself." Of Austen Chamberlain, ex-Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. "Austen Chamberlain is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions...
...greatest benefit 'to the greatest number, and which by increasing the purchasing power of the people will stimulate trade and industry, and I have kept in mind always the vital importance of maintaining the national credit, on which the very existence of the country depends." "Hear, hear!" interjected Austen Chamberlain, twice Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Things Happen. Clemence Dane, English lady, author of Will Shakespeare and A Bill of Divorcement, has a new melodrama on American boards. A very dreadful affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price...
...list of other famed Americans, living and dead, whose portraits Sargent has painted includes: President Theodore Roosevelt (for the White House), Henry G. Marquand, William M. Chase (Metropolitan Museum, New York), "Mrs. Austen" (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy), Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field (Pennsylvania Academy), James Whitcomb Riley (Art Association, Indianapolis, Ind.), Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Art Institute, Chicago), the late Joseph Pulitzer and Mrs. Pulitzer and Charles H. Woodbury, marine painter...