Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last U. S. jazz band to play in London?three and a half years ago?was the relatively restrained Brooke Johns Orchestra. Dauntlessly, however, "Conductor Abie" sailed from Manhattan. The Ministry of Labor agreed that "Abie's Own" may perform at a London night club, on condition that the proprietor hire an equal number of authentic British musicians...
Though meagre and defective, "Conductor Abie's" victory may serve as an opening wedge. Even more significant as a sign of growing British jazz consciousness was the installation, last week, of "phonograph kiosks" in the waiting rooms of several London and provincial railway stations...
European Reaction. Englishmen seemed predominantly shocked by events in Belgrade, last week. Frenchmen were overjoyed, Germans vexed and Italians furious. Said London's famed Spectator: "The severity of the dictatorship is startling. It is a disagreeable spectacle to see a nation abandon parliamentarianism and rush into autocracy." In Paris, where King Alexander is regarded as the chief Balkan ally of France, virtually the whole press praised the new Dictatorship. The German Monarchist Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung approved "this fresh proof of the futility of parliamentarianism"; but the Socialist Vorwaerts sneered savagely at "the Surgeon-King who seeks to cure...
Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples...