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School Doctors Flayed. Headmaster Cuthbert Harold Blakiston of Lancing College flayed the Public School Boy of today (see p. 15). Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller. honorary director of the Institute of Medical Psychology, flayed Public School doctors. "School teachers?I refer to those who hold teaching certificates? have at least had some training in psychology, whereas we doctors have not. Any knowledge of the subject that the school medical officer may possess he has acquired since graduation. It follows, therefore, that in dealing with such problems as persistent stealing or homosexuality the teacher is more likely than the doctor to have...
...joviality through all this excites a great deal of amused tittering from his audiences, goes far to compensate for but does not prevent the lameness of the farce's conclusion. The hand that flutters to Fay Bainter's sad mouth is the one that bossed the admirable Crichton about last season; the mouth sang Victor Herbert's Dream Girl some years before...
Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...
Moving through all this is one remarkable character, a waiter (Edouard La Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...large-headed little gnome whose name is Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world...