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Next to ice in his whiskey & soda, the thing an Englishman dislikes most is a draft from an open window. So last week when barristers and jurors complained of drafts to Mr. Justice Humphreys at the Winchester assizes, the bewigged justice gave heed, dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...
...London's tiny Mayor Gallery, fortnight ago, there opened an exhibition of paintings by a shaggy-haired, beer-loving Englishman who immediately, without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
...fact that Englishman Hayter was in Spain while Spaniard Dali was getting up a show of dream-constructed knickknacks in Paris (TIME, Feb. 7) remained a paradox last week. There was no mystery, however, about Madrid's hospitality to Artist Hayter...
Leonard Gribble told an unbelievable story of the murder of a self-made Englishman at a fancy-dress ball. In Midnight and Percy Jones Vincent Starrett told the story of the shooting of a Chicago concert singer and the solution of the crime by Riley Blackwood, a drama critic and annoying amateur detective...
...Author- Frederick Lonsdale is a 57-year-old Englishman who has written 24 plays. But it was not till 1923, with Aren't We All?, that he made a real hit on Broadway. He conceives all his plays as tragedies, writes them all as comedies, because in comedy "you can tell a much deeper story. That's why Shaw wrote comedies...