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...present Communist State, trampling down Kerensky's puny and irresolute Republic. Last week the present masters of Communist Russia made public, contemptuously, the diary of the onetime Tsar of all the Russias, written at Tobolsk. On Nov. 14, when Nikolai Lenin's dictatorship was six days old, Diarist Nicholas Romanov was still in ignorance of its existence and jotted placidly: "Today is the birthday of dear mama* and the 23rd anniversary of our marriage. At noon we heard prayers. The choir muddled and sang false, doubtless from lack of practice." Three days later the shattering news reached even...
...irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays the part in a manner agreeable but somewhat anachronistic. The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, is the same that played successfully in London, including Yvonne Arnaud, excellent as the wife. Pepys is pronounced in the play as it was by the diarist himself, "Peeps...
...editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland (1906-08), Sir George Fowler King-Hall, K. C. B., retired...
Before Thomas Cook instituted an excursion, he tried to cover the territory personally. He was a great diarist, noting down the beauties and historicities of locales. In 1872 he pioneered the first annual tour around the world. Now the organization which he left in charge of his only son, John Mason Cook (died 1899)* arranges such tours with the casualness of a banker cashing a check. A host of other travel agencies have since entered the business, among them: Raymond Whitcomb Co., American Express Co., Frank Tourist Co., F. C. Clark. So too have various steamship lines. Yet none...
...FARINGTON DIARY, VOL. III*-Joseph Farington. Edited by James Greig - Doran ($7.50). If Joseph Farington was a mediocre artist, he at least excelled as a diarist. He seems to have known everybody worth knowing and his books teem with piquant anecdotes about Nelson, George III and IV, Pitt, Napoleon...