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Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Loder Rhododendron Cup for 1936 by the Royal Horticultural Society of London. This cup has been awarded annually since 1921, but only three times has it gone outside of England...
Died. Dr. Bernard Kornelius Johannes Loder, 86, Dutch authority on international law, first president of the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court); at The Hague...
...Masquerader (Samuel Goldwyn). John Chilcote, M. P.. harassed by drink, drugs, nervous instability and a vampire mistress, one foggy night bumps into an impoverished journalist cousin who looks exactly like him. The next day. too jagged to make an important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock...
Dual impersonation in the cinema is such an old and obvious trick that it usually makes for implausibility unless the actor who attempts it is skillful enough to give the two characters definite and different personalities. Ronald Colman succeeds in doing so, most brilliantly when, as Loder, he is imitating Chilcote's mannerisms just badly enough to make the audience feel that it is an imitation and just well enough to make the audience feel that the imitation might have fooled Chilcote's intimates. Typical situation: Loder. "making mistakes in wives," chatting with Mrs. Chilcote in the hope...
...Loder of the Southern Railway, which built the dock, made a speech agreeing that the dry dock was a good thing. The Lord Bishop of Winchester invoked a blessing. Somebody handed Queen 'Mary a silver chalice in which were mixed several kinds of Empire wines. She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers. Southamptonites cheered themselves hysterical. The royal family climbed briskly back into the Victoria & Albert, steamed down Southampton Water toward Cowes...