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...Swan of Avon were living today and writing for a newspaper syndicate...
...beautiful is spring! Especially spring here at home in Stratford-on-Avon. Spring, as someone has said, is the birth of the year. I have been working hard in London on some new plays for the Globe Theatre, and I just ran down to Stratford for a few days to see my father and the old friends here in the home town. Oh, if you young people who have stage ambitions will only remember to love your home town wherever it may be, and go back to it once in a while, you will spare yourself contact with so many...
...father, when I told him the circumstances, said: "Oh Bill, isn't it lovely here at Stratford in the spring, with the trees all greening, the flowers peering forth under the old dry leaves in the woods and the river Avon tuning up for its song of summer. Bill, what do you say to strolling down to the Red Lion and splitting a bucket of sack...
...Avon House: W. M. Houghton...
...tour of the British Isles will include several days in London, short visits at Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh and the industrial centers of Manchester and Glasgow, with brief stays at many places identified with the joint heritage of the English-speaking peoples such as Stratford-on-Avon, Melrose, Kenilworth, Abbotsford, and Loch Lomond. In addition there will be a three days' coaching trip through North Wales, three days more in the lake district, and nearly a week in the Scottish Highlands. The party is also scheduled to visit several Cathedral towns on the east coast of England...