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Howard Cook, an Englishman, is responsible for some of the most interesting work on display. In particular, his "Canyons" is a very capable piece of etching, and quite as forcible is his impression of "Skyscrapers." John Nash, also an English artist, concentrates more on the design, abstracting the subject matter to fit this composition, and has succeeded in making some very pleasing small etchings. A head by Pechstein is the only blatantly modern piece of the English display...
...swearing in Halifax last week, an Englishman six ft. two in. tall, pale and of distinguished bearing, assumed the office of Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, to which he was appointed two months ago (TIME...
Winner: a drab-appearing Englishman who not only works for peace but toils for it 365 days every year: Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations...
...play relates the story of a young Englishman who strangles his faithless mistress, confesses his crime to his father (Lionel Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that...
...President Butler's Charter Day address at the University of California he quoted a young Englishman as saying that "politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially by every politician who would succeed." But President Sproul, who spoke later in the day to the alumni, showed no such reverential attitude toward a particular sham menacing the higher educational standards of the State of California. This young president had the courage to describe the proposal to distribute the State's higher educational funds among at least nine institutions besides the university as "the intemperate oratory of demogogues...