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Black Limelight spins along smoothly enough for two acts, bogs down at the denouement, is saved on total rating by the abilities of George Curzon (lately the Parnell of Parnell), Winifred Lenihan and Alexander Kirkland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Raceway was no puzzle to Europe's aristocratic race drivers, they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just as his five years as Viceroy were up, a misfortune which has more than once occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership & Co-Operation | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...bearded, gimlet-eyed Sir Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance and Railway Member of the State Executive Council of Hyderabad (see cut, p. 22). It was he who so stirred up the Chamber of Princes that eventually the British Raj, which when Lord Curzon was Viceroy acquired Berar from Hyderabad, was constrained to agree that Berar "has always belonged" and should now be returned to Hyderabad. Thus appeased, the Nizam of Hyderabad may well be the first 21-gun Indian potentate to sign, or foxy Sir Akbar at the last moment may advise His Exalted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership & Co-Operation | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...Wild Bill" Cummings, accustomed to high speeds on oval tracks with banked turns, will have their first chance to compete with the best European road drivers, of whom many are socialites like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rolling Road | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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