Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present The Literary Works of JOHN BUCHAN...
...Steps is the most effective demonstration to date of Director Alfred Hitchcock's method of artful understatement and its success, which has already been sensational abroad, should be a lesson to his Hollywood imitators. The film is an adaptation of a novel written 20 years ago by John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir, who next month will go to Canada as that Dominion's Governor-General (TIME, Aug. 19). This high-placed connection made it possible for the British film industry to improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London...
Canadian wiseacres last week guessed the general election would come the first or second Monday in October. Canada's new Novelist-Governor General, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, is to land in Quebec Oct. 10. Getting out Sept. 12 are the unpopular Earl of Bessborough and his Countess. To preserve Empire amenities, Canadian women's organizations are taking up a collection to present Lady Bessborough on her departure with a vase 16 inches high made by Canadian goldsmiths from Canadian gold...
...London Governor-General-Designate Buchan, giving up his seat in Parliament, said the magnificently right thing: "As an historian I have always been fascinated by the romance of Canada's history and her wonderful development. ... I do not feel that I am really leaving home, since Canada has been so largely made by my countrymen and so much inspired by Scottish tradition. I look forward also to seeing much that is wonderful in the French-Canadian race, which has produced some of the chief pioneers in the world's history. I found in the War that...
...John Buchan's ability to say the right thing reaches its flower in The People's King, the Jubilee history of George V's reign, which Houghton Mifflin will publish in the U. S. on May i. Of George V it says little: that he has a tenacious memory, is the first British King since Charles II to be a first-class practitioner of a field sport (shooting), that the British Government suppressed the fact that during the null horse reared and fell on him. Of the British institution of the Throne it says much: "A calm...