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...that. Married in 1913 to "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), U. S. born imagist poet, he no longer lives with her. Demobilization found him penniless, jobless, touchy. A reviewing job on the London Times Literary Supplement was soon too much for his nerves; translation has given him his bread & butter. An Englishman born & bred. Aldington has left what he thinks is a sinking ship, lives in the south of France. Other books: War & Love, Images of Desire, Death of a Hero, Roads to Glory (TIME...
...correspondent of the archConservative London Morning Post. Thus Ivy Litvinov comes from the most aristocratic side of Fleet Street, has dabbled in journalism, written a mystery novel. When the Lloyd George Government (1916-22) had had some few contacts with Soviet Representative Litvinov he was arrested, exchanged for an Englishman who had been imprisoned in Russia. Anglo-Soviet relations were broken...
...well. Le Touquet croupiers remembered last week that Mr. Factor and H. R. H. have played baccarat at the same table- which proves nothing. In Chicago last week Mr. Factor got away from his luxurious apartment just before the Secret Service men arrived. But they nabbed in Philadelphia an Englishman called Harry Geen, said to be Factor's swindling lieutenant...
...novels (never published), intended to write more but changed his mind. Ford considers England will not be normal again till a new generation has grown up. He divides his time between Manhattan and Paris, waiting for that day. Tall, fair-haired,, lumbering. Ford looks like a cartoonist's Englishman, speaks with a wheeze (he was gassed), wears baggy tweeds, smokes cheap French cigarets. He is a Roman Catholic. Other books: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post...
...bores through the night. over the rooftops from his window, and into her mind. In an age in which hypnotism was discussed as the most important development of science, and in which any love story had pathos if it was laid in the Latin quarter and contained a titled Englishman in a leading part, Trilby was a masterpiece of popular appeal. For modern cinemaseers it is an interesting though somewhat gloomy curio, worth-while for John Barrymore's tricks. It is beautifully staged. Typical shot: Barrymore dying as he makes a last effort to hypnotize Trilby, while she, feeling...