Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Newell Boat House motion pictures will be shown of the University race with Yale last June at New London...
...know what fate history reserves for the Washington-London debt settlements during the next sixty years. What is certain is that no further sacrifice can be asked of the Italian nation than the giving up of the whole of her German reparations to paying off her War debts...
...together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...
...people who came to church that afternoon was Haldane MacFall, then a London art critic, now the author of a biography of Artist Aubrey Beardsley. His book says little about Beardsley's family, his schooldays, his friends. It conveys scarcely any of the color of the period, already so remote and glittering, in which Beardsley drew his astonishing pictures for The Yellow Book. Only between the somewhat heavy lines of Author MacFall's writing can be discovered the eccentric tragedy of Beardsley's last year of life, when, while he was doing his best drawings...