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...rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides of Regent Street, pieces of Kennington slums, Finchley, Hampstead, Dalston and swank Carlton House Terrace...
Most effective was the Swan Dance, filmed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members...
...never forgave the U. S. After War broke out, she joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England...
Robert Blaine Murray, Jr., of Hampstead, Maryland, has been named Varsity swimming manager for next year...