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...Royal Virgin. The strange affection which persisted between Queen Elizabeth and her favorite, Robert Devereux. Earl of Essex, has been subjected to speculation by innumerable historians and, more recently, by the imaginative Lytton Strachey. Theirs was a relation which would in all probability have taxed the analytic powers of a Shakespeare or a Freud. The latest ambitious analyst is Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble, one-time associate of Christopher Morley in Hoboken theatrical enterprises (TIME, March 25, 1929). Playwright Gribble has examined several old dramas on the theme, has evolved his own explanation of its mysteries...
Since the Norman conquest, stag hunting has been a favorite and, as usually regarded, comparatively harmless amusement of the British nobility. In the reign of Charles II, a 70-mile hunt was held from Swinley to Lord Petre's Seat in Essex; the Duke of York was the only hunter in at the death. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 19 packs of staghounds in England, four in Ireland. The biggest existing British deer park is 4,000 acres at Savernake. The season opens on Aug. 12, ends Oct. 8. There is a short spring season...
Margaret, the eldest, used to be the best. Then Elizabeth learned to beat her. Mianne was next in line, but for some reason Sarah, two years younger, made headway faster. Helen Wills played Sarah last summer at the Essex County Club Tournament and said afterward: "She is the best girl player of her age I ever saw." Mianne's main trouble was that she had no confidence in her backhand, became nervous at the wrong moments. Last week in the finals of the Women's National Indoor Singles Championship, Mianne dropped five games to Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, then rallied...
...Tenth annual figure-skating competition, Lake Placid Club, Essex...
...Third annual sled dog derby, Lake Placid Club, Essex...