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...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
...Joan of the Stockyards (1929) is wholly in the first category. Pierpont Mauler is a crush-as-crush-can Chicago meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht's caricature of capitalists both hopelessly dated and immensely funny to a modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group...
...family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...
Four characters, bound for Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, constitute Mr. Cole's instruments in his tussle with the fates. The Bishop expresses a worldly skepticism; the Merchant an enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty...
Died. Anne Meredith Bigelow, who never revealed her age (about 70), a Broadway chorine of the '20s who married the fourth Baron Sackville, became mistress of an 8,000-acre estate and a cavernous Tudor mansion with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courtyards; of a heart attack; at the family seat, Knole, Kent...