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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe, cancelled a proposed visit to the U. S. No reason for the cancellation was given. The present Government announced that it would, if reëlected, introduce a bill in the next session of the Diet to grant suffrage to all* male Japanese subjects, except paupers, insane, etc. According to reports emanating from a British source, Japan is now seeking oil in Persia. This statement was founded upon the fact that Japanese commercial agents are there for the first time in the past 50 years. Said the diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, London journal: "It may be that...
...that his opinion springs. For the past ten years he has not gone much to the New York theatres. Recently, this has been changed. He has been viewing the current products. He has seen such plays as The Show off, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, The Merry Wives of Gotham, etc., and he maintains that we have in New York, at the present, the best native drama America has ever had, the best, as a matter of fact, that exists in any city in the world. Individual acting, perhaps, was better in the old days?but production and direction...
...General Henri Gouraud, bearded, one-armed hero of the poilus and doughboys, was elected to the French Academy in the section of archeology. While commanding French forces in the Near East he created an archeological service which facilitated the excavations at Byblus, Tyre, Sidon, etc...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...Northumberland, notorious for quoting Nesta Webster, well-known anti-Socialist authoress, was a fighting soldier in Sudan and South Africa and a London soldier in the World War. In 1922, he was reported financially embarrassed, sold much land, rented his mansion on the Thames. But the coal business (Newcastle, etc.) picked up, and the Duke is again rich...