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This afternoon at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6, Professor Ernest Barker of the University of Cambridge will lecture in Government 2b on "Political Theory and the Practice of Politics...
People throughout the world last week looked and looked at pictures of "Captain Barker," the woman who long persuaded the British Army that she was Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, a "Mons man," a devoted husband, a first rate boxer (TIME, March...
Last week "Captain Barker" was arrested again. Her offense before the law was not that she had worn men's clothes, or even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...
Their original intention was merely to use the old playhouse for their own amusement. They gathered together a company best described as semiprofessional and last Labor Day threw the doors open for their first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...
...newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, presently presented its 2,000,000 readers with My Own Story by "Captain Barker." Excerpts...