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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undenied by any British source, the story of the King and Mrs. Simpson last week was blunt and simple. Under English law a man who makes a trip in company with another man's wife, the two stopping at the same hotels, has in fact given the husband opportunity to sue the wife for divorce on the ground of adultery. The King has just made an extended yachting trip in company with Mrs. Simpson, and notably in Vienna they stopped at the same hotel (TIME, Sept. 21). But Mr. Simpson, as a loyal British subject, could not institute proceedings...
...usual procedure is for the husband to register with a hired corespondent at an English hotel, the staff of which are familiar with their jobs. When the wife brings the suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting...
Pastor Lewis Valentine, heedless of the judge's frequent warnings that he must not make irrelevant remarks, vehemently justified the burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws...
...Kechler, Fine Arts; A. B. Lamb, Chemistry; William L. Langer, History; C. I. Lewis, Philosophy; L. S. Marks, Engineering Sciences; F. O. Matthiessen, History and Literature; L. J. A. Mercier, French; Roger B. Merriman, History; Leonard Opdyke, Fine Arts; A. S. Peaze, Classics; F. N. Robinson, English; Alan R. Sweezy, Economics; J. L. Walsh, Mathematics; F. L. Whipple, Astoronomy; J. D. Wild, Philosophy; P. S. Wild, Government; Edgar B. Wilson, Jr., Chemistry; Edwin B. Wilson, Sociology...
Kermit Murdock, Harvard '29, who studied at the Yale School of Drama, will direct the play. The "Romantic Young Lady" is a Spanish comedy translated into English by Helen and Granville Barker...