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...mayor accepted the honorary presidency of the International Shakespeare Association. Inc., and allowed his name to be used in a drive for funds. Disillusionment came when he found that protectorate was not the fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
...Leiber is gifted with intuition enough to grasp the fact, that net yet at any rate is he either Hampien or Barrymore. With that in the back of his mind, as well as his own private theories as to the manner of presenting the bard of Avon's plays he has gone ahead. Far from following the custom any path, he leaves the pomposity which suits but so few pieces anyway, and proceeds to tone ats Shakespere down. He in particular, but the supporting cast as well, render their lines as though they were of twentieth century vintage...
...memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, only lineal descendant of John Harvard to graduate from Harvard College, will be put in place this summer according to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Three identical bronze tablets will be unveiled at the John Harvard house at Stratford-on-Avon, England, Lionel Hall, and the D. U. Clubhouse, Cambridge...
...before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds of falling crockery and chimney pots. Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock. At Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. tourists clutched their passports and pocketbooks; the "sure and firm set earth" was trembling violently with the roar of an express train. It was Britain's third temblor in a month, the severest in 30 years, part of a series indicating that for the first time...
Died. Alfred Curtis Knox, 78, for 22 years Vice President of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh, brother of onetime Senator Philander C. Knox; at Ben Avon, Pa., after a lingering illness...