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...lack of U.S. outlets, leaving Korda's company owing ?700,000 to Prudential. He recouped in Hollywood, went back to England, hocked his life insurance policy to make the British propaganda film The Lion Has Wings. It earned him a handsome profit and helped win him a knighthood. Korda, whose finances puzzle even his friends, then bailed out London Films, bought a controlling interest in British Lion, a top-rung distributing company, and issued ?1,000,000 in stock...
...This Way. Bill Lewis made his living by interpreting the U.S. to Britons, but he won his knighthood for explaining Britain to Americans. He never took his official honor too seriously, or his titles of "unofficial ambassador" and "dean of correspondents." When a friend asked what it meant to be a knight, he boomed: "Well, I'll tell you, old boy. Willmott Lewis used to fetch $250 per lecture. Sir Willmott Lewis gets...
...Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality; 1899-Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum, Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When...
...League meeting in Bombay's Quaisar Bagh Hall, he gripped the microphone, sputtered: "I surrender-" in a voice that sounded like anything but surrender. Sir Mohamed then put fingers of both hands in his mouth, removed his lower teeth. That was better. He shouted again: "I surrender my knighthood." Delegates cheered and embraced...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...