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...probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done to bring peace . . . every attempt must be made to seize upon the slightest evidence of good feeling between nations...
Hornpipe at Six. Christopher Fry turned his first corner almost 43 years ago in Bristol. For 38 of his 42 years, he lived close to poverty. Fry's father was a poor architect named Charles Harris, who had a hankering to be a clergyman. Just as he finally began to prosper in his trade he decided to chuck it and take to lay missionary work in the Bristol slums. He took to drink besides. When he died, his widow had to take in boarders, but managed to send Christopher to a decent school. Later he assumed his mother...
...Shubert) is the first light comedy in seven years by the author of Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Lonsdale still favors the drawing room, in this case a ducal one. But in this case the Duke of Bristol and all his clan are stony broke, and-except for industrious Gerard-indolent, incompetent and alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with her. But Gerard won't marry money and Mary...
...Duke of Bristol, it seems, is about to lose his ancestral home. His brother Gerard, played by Ralph Michael, invites the family to work on his farm, but they recoil from the idea in horror. Providence appears in the form of the American millionairess, played by Beatrice Pearson. After a great deal of to-do she and Gerard get together, as you might know they would. The play is short on action and long on talk, a great deal of which takes place inside a gloomy drawing-room set by Edward Gilbert. Most of the time the 14 characters just...
...country kilometer. Back of his long string of victories is a string of 300 horses including 100 brood mares and eight stud stallions. About 100 of the horses are always in training under oldtime French Jockey Charles Semblat. When they cross the Channel, they travel in a special Bristol...