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...title would be given him. Two famed royal dukedoms were vacant-Edinburgh and Kent. Last week by letters patent George V ordered that his youngest son be proclaimed Duke of Kent forthwith. Kent, whence come the hops to make British beer bitter, was a Kingdom long before William the Conqueror. There have been Earls of Kent since the 11th Century, but there have been only two Dukes. The first, Henry Grey, 12th Earl of Kent, was made a Duke in 1710, died with the title 30 years later. Bulbous, misguided George III revived the title for his fourth son, cantankerous...
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) first arrives in the presence of Julius Caesar (Warren William) rolled up in a Persian rug. Later she puts on her familiar transparent skirt and brassiere, proceeds to seduce her conqueror in short order, accompanies him to Rome. When Caesar is assassinated, Cleopatra scuttles back to Egypt...
When William the Conqueror was fighting the Battle of Hastings (1066) bearded bards in Wales were taking crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back...
...Confucius, Dr. H. H. Kung. Her little Brother Tse-wen ("Scholarly Son") became Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror, and her greatest Finance Minister and the 75th descendant of her foremost sage...
...ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong the Financier tried to make himself a popular figure by clamoring for Chinese efforts to wrest Manchukuo back from Japan. Chiang the Conqueror (of Chinese) knew that against Japanese his forces could not for the present win. He also resented the encroachment into politics of Soong, the money man. Cross current of intrigue and personal gossip further estranged T. V. and Chiang. Last week Mr. Soong was in effect gloating on the sidelines...