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...proletarian by birth is Soviet Director Coates. He was born in St. Petersburg, son of a Russianized British capitalist (woolen mills) and a half-Russian Englishwoman. He grew up in Russia, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. Vaguely intending to become an electrical chemist, he studied in England under Sir Oliver Lodge. At 18 he returned to music. In 1914, aged 32, he became senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble...
...Englishman or Englishwoman wants to have a pleasant chat with Poetess Naidu, he or she should coax her to reminisce about her old father and the Court where she was brought up, the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, famed "Richest Man in the World...
...reason of the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh, over a population of 3,300,000 which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...
Skepticism greeted a tale of Tibet brought to London last week by one Jill Cossley-Blatt, Englishwoman, and a Dr. Irvine Baird, Canadian. But the pair claimed that they had proof of a tribe who live in a cranny of the Himalayas and "are white and appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled...
...Englishwoman, Mrs. M. Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer...