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John Gielgud, a sensitive and intelligent Englishman of 32 with a nose the size of a hockey puck, was seen in the U. S. last spring as the hero of a not very exciting British film melodrama called Secret Agent. Long before that, however, London had grown accustomed to acclaiming his Hamlets. He has appeared in four separate productions between 1929 and 1936. Many who witnessed the cast of his nighted colour in Manhattan last week had no difficulty in understanding Gielgud's popularity in the role. The size of Actor Gielgud's features, ludicrous when magnified...
...Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony will be playing again under the beneficent command of Pierre Monteux. The New York Philharmonic, bereft of Arturo Toscanini, has postponed its season's opening until November when John Barbirolli, an obscure young Englishman so far as the U. S. is concerned, will take over the first ten weeks. Barbirolli's appointment has been frowned upon by many a Philharmonic subscriber who may soon be convinced that he is either the season's dead flop or its dark horse...
...order for his State to enter the Indian Federation actually takes pen in hand and signs. For this purpose the Viceroy last week sent on tour as his personal emissaries to each of India's potentates three resolute political officers on special mission. Respectively the three are an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, namely: handsome, epigrammatic Sir Courtenay Latimer, crusty Agent to the Governor General in the States of Western India, who will get potentates to sign in Baroda, the Deccan, the Gujarat Agencies and the Western India Agencies; astute and charming Francis Verner Wylie, the Resident...
...tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons of the Italian sea, and the two Glockners rising from their glaciers, upright from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor, talks politics with him, tells the story of her life, becomes his mistress. The story...
Albert John Farmer, professor of English and American Literature at the University of Bordeaux, will come as exchange professor from France for the first half year. His courses will be on "The Modern English Novel" and "The Elizabethan Dramatists." An Englishman, Dr. Farmer graduated from the University of Manchester, and subsequently moved to France. His publications have concerned English Literature in the late 19th Century, particularly the works of Walter Pater, essayist and critic...