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But none of Rockefeller Center's murals startles the beholder quite so much as a large canvas hung this autumn in the spectacular foyer of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

"The last song which the glee club will render--"War and Washington" expresses better than any other poem of the day, the "Spirit of '76". The tune "British Grnadier" was already a century old; and it is still played by the band of the Grenadier Guards.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERS THEATRE EXERCISES ON FOR HOLIDAY MORNING | 2/20/1932 | See Source »

Generally acclaimed as the most gorgeous male present (not excepting even George V who wore the scarlet coat of a mere Colonel of the Grenadier Guards) was the Abyssinian representative, black as the ten of clubs. Strutting in a white and gold embroidered jacket and trousers. His Excellency surmounted this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miss Duke & Majesty | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

The Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost, Found | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Seating at banquet was by numbers drawn from a hat. Chance arranged that the Prince of Wales should sit between Sergeant William F. Burman, now a chauffeur, who won his cross for silencing a machine gun singlehanded, and John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, acting Colonel of the aristocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Enviable Order | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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