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Sherman Douglas, pretty, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had arrived at a universal truth as she flew into New York with her grandmother to spend the Christmas holidays in the U.S. Asked if she preferred Englishmen to American men, she said thoughtfully: "Men are men, no matter where they...
...dogs and Englishmen, Old Rudyard himself, and assorted fans of the esoteric dance, all absent Tuesday night from the new Boston Dance Theatre at 31 Hemmenway Street, would have reveled in "Music and Dances of India," brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the beaux arts, and bullied husbands of ripening patronesses who answered muster at the opening offering of the newly-formed Boston Dance Society felt slightly confused, like this reviewer, but on the whole pleased by this curtain raiser of the New Boston Dance Society...
...most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music-or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage of London. Recording sales were rivaling such alltime British favorites as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn...
...little, brown-eyed, onetime parlormaid was making Englishmen sit up & take notice last week. The BBC had broadcast the story of her remarkable life as a missionary in China, and she was drawing crowds to churches every afternoon and evening in Swansea, Wales. Wearing her Chinese clothes, Gladys Aylward lectures for no pay, but she speaks to people as often as she can. Says she: "There will be more people praying...
...World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...