Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Embassy at Paris. The report was issued in book form, last week, by the British Department of Overseas Trade and produced an international sensation. One of its major conclusions, that French prosperity is due in large part to the French protective tariff, was promptly taken up in London by the many onetime English free traders who have now turned protectionist. The most potent of these is Baron Melchett, foremost British Chemical and Industrial Tycoon (TIME, Oct. 29). Speaking in London last week Lord Melchett alluded to the Cahill Report and belligerently said...
Code radio flashes from London to the plunging, speeding Enterprise told David of Windsor more than any correspondent knew about George V's condition. In England censorship of the official medical bulletins by Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks grew so drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...
...When Jessie Bonstelle, now the mentor of Detroit's Civic Theatre, arrived in Buffalo, Katharine Cornell became her pupil and like many another of Jessie Bonstelle's proteges, profited greatly by the tutelage. Later she toured under William A. Brady; later still she made her debut in London, returned to Manhattan for a series of successes of which the most notable was The Green Hat, and married Guthrie McClintic. Last year she was in The Letter; last week she received rave notices, from even St. John Ervine of the New York World...
...Music, worked on the details of a plan whereby a National High School Orchestra of some 150 of the most talented high school musicians will go next summer to Europe, play at the World Conference on Education at Geneva, at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, perhaps in London, Berlin, other capitals...
...musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...