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Queen Victoria had strong views about almost everything-especially actresses. She once said: "Any gentleman wishing to become an officer in my Household troops will not be eligible if he marries a woman on the stage." George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, a 20-year-old militia officer who wanted a commission in The Blues, thus hesitated to wed pretty Actress Eva Raines...
Since August, when a picture of General MacArthur kissing the gloved hand of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was published in Paris, France has been agitated over the problem: Should a gentleman kiss a gloved hand? The fact that General MacArthur was shown wearing his hat and grasping a pipe in his left hand added to the confusion...
...every weekday morning, a 70-year-old gentleman whom all Portland, Ore. knows as Mr. Mac marches into the First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...
...part of its space to Jewish problems. It has printed articles for & against Zionism, though some readers have called it anti-Zionist. Others have even accused it of being too calm about anti-Semitism because it didn't join the popular hoorah over such tracts as the novel Gentleman's Agreement and the movie Crossfire...
...Hogarth's famous series of etchings, and the entire ballet is conceived in this spirit. In six scenes we follow the downfall of the young Bake, splendidly danced by Alexander Grant. Especially incisive and brilliant were Brian Shaw, as the Rake's Dancing Master, and Ray Powell, as "The Gentleman with a Rope," an inmate of a London madhouse...