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...erratic. Its preoccupation with the Civil War has left the impression that Abe Lincoln was the father of his country. The magnificent material to be found in America's small beginning has been almost entirely neglected since talking pictures arrived. Not until early this year, when veteran, British-born Director Frank Lloyd began shooting The Howards at Williamsburg, did any major director train his camera on the Founding Fathers. In The Howards of Virginia Director Lloyd presents their era in an able, slow-moving, sincere screen translation of Elizabeth Page's novel, The Tree of Liberty...
Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...
Among refugees who arrived in North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose...
These good deeds done, generous Adolf Hitler scudded away from sweltering Berlin to cool Bayreuth for four hours of Gdtterddmmerung and a visit with British-born Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the great Richard and a soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation...
...name, foreign-name maestros who lead U. S. symphony orchestras, the most typically, most restlessly American is a British-born Irish-Pole: Leopold Antony Stokowski. Bored with the daily routine of polishing up well-known classics, Stokowski long ago jumped the fence of the conventional musical pasture and wandered far afield. He rewrote symphonic oomph into Bach fugues, started adding weird electrical instruments to his orchestra, played the Communist Internationale at a Philadelphia symphony concert. When, four years ago, Stokowski retired from the chief conductorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra and went to Hollywood to make movies, Philadelphia conservatives sighed with...