Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multitude of courses no time is allowed for reviewing before an examination. Even worse in some instances: for History I at mid-years, besides all the reviewing we were meant to do, we had to cover a staggering three week assignment within the last fortnight before the examination. In England, both in preparatory schools and varsities, we were always given a "revising-hours" and in consequence we registered less cases of failure than you do over here, and we did not have to resort to crammers. Take a hint from the old world! S. C. Macalester...
...what will be the American premiere of Emlyn Williams' romantic comedy, "He Was Born Gay", the Harvard Dramatic Club is rounding into shape its fifty-eighth production. The amusing drama of Napolconic England will be presented at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston...
First presented in England during the 1937 Coronation season, the play presents a new theory as to the fate of the Dauphin, son of the unhappy Marie Antoinette, and heir to the former throne of France...
Germany. To most of its U. S. readers, Gone With the Wind is straight historical romance. Foreigners like it almost as much, but judge it differently. Now published in 14 countries, with sales reaching 184,000 in England, 6,000 in Hungary, 4,750 in Chile, it has made its biggest sensation outside the U. S. in Nazi Germany, which has bought 134,000 copies. Nazi highbrows, calling it irresistible, found it an attack on "plundering mercantile Yankee capitalism" and on democracy. Said Das Innere Reich, leading Nazi literary journal, "We see the fall and death of the old aristocrats...
...England. Twenty years ago a genial Englishman named John Collings Squire, parodist, poet and expert cricketer, launched The London Mercury. Its main aim was to publish poetry, especially the work of his friends, Robert Bridges, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Well-printed, heavy, smooth, The Mercury was appreciated by poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...