Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would Anglophile DuBois dispute Burkes or Debrett's Peerages? Both list Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, as "Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Premier Duke and Premier Earl...
Mencken last week declared that "the greatest story since the Resurrection" is the now living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such...
...never goes to bed before 3 a. m., sleeps with a black blindfold, considers it fun to open charge accounts. She writes personal letters on a typewriter, has had lunch twice with George Bernard Shaw, is of airplanes, taxis, trains, subways, refused to act with animals on the stage since a bulldog bit her in Seventeen...
...little in the past has the importance of American literature been heeded by the faculty of Harvard. With the sudden departure of Bernard De Voto the last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but some of its members, led by its distinguished harpist, Bernard Zighera, are to give a most interesting chamber music concert in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. The program opens with a Sinfonie for Grand Orchestra (two violins, viola, bass, two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and tympani) written by the late eighteenth century Rhenish composer, Henri Joseph Riegel. Following this, there is to be a work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program...