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...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...
...property in Liverpool, Bootle, Kirkdale and Walton consisted of free hold and ground rents on 20,000 houses, Lord Derby retaining all his rights as lord of the various manors. These rights have endured ever since the creation of the earldom...
...last week the foundation of an Imperial League of Opera. His new scheme calls for 120,000 subscriptions of $2.50 annually to provide for an estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner; Sir Thomas himself to be artistic director...
...Howard Heath Rapp '26, of Broomall, Pa.; Harry Shulsky, New York University '26, of New York; Bernard Soman '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jule Elias Stocker '26, of Detroit, Mich.; John Joseph Verdon, Holy Cross '26, of Hoboken, N. J. and William Henry Vochy, Jr., Princeton '26, of East Liverpool, Ohio...
Last week Mr. Selfridge spoke before students of the Liverpool University School of Architecture. Said he: "I will tell you the order of the five most beautiful things in creation: A beautiful woman first, then a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful edifice...