Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the eighth Assembly of the League of Nations ended its deliberations (TIME, Oct. 10) Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, hastened to the sea coast and there boarded his yacht, the Dolphin, and was no more heard of until, off Majorca, the principal Balearic island off Spain, he entertained General Primo de Rivera, Dictator of Spain...
...interpretation of Hamlet, Louis Leon Hall and Irby Marshall as the king and queen being particularly satisfactory. Philip Quin in the part of Polonius somehow tails, in the opinion of the reviewer, to give an altogether persuasive representation, but, inasmuch as the true character of the Lord Chamberlain is largely a matter for opinion. Mr. Quin's playing of it is also a matter for personal prejudice. In portraying Polonius almost too capably as a pronounced senile imbecile, it is inevitable that the force of Polonius' farewell to Laertes is impaired...
...Excellency Alfonso, Marques de Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...
...debutante strives to elude an effete Italian Count, the robust forest ranger comes on from the West. He is a tenor; she a soprano. Passion's progress is recorded rather musically in "Close in Your Arms," "Voice of the High Sierras," "Enchanted Isle" and other duets. Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, concert singer, wrote it all-book, lyrics, music-and her friends produced it under an incognito of towering pretension, to wit, American Allied Arts, Inc. It has its moments...
Minorities. In the Council a heated argument took place between tall, gaunt Count Albert Apponyi of Hungary and nervous, excitable Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania. The treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania has long been a subject of severe dispute. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, attempted to lay down three guiding principles for the treatment of former Hungarians now in Ru- mania by virtue of the peace treaty...