Word: londoners
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Married. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer, of Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...
Died. Esme Howard, 22, eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; in London; after an illness of several years' duration. The Ambassador, one of the most respected and popular in the diplomatic corps at Washington, returned to England a month ago when his son's condition appeared critical and was with him when he died...
Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...
This Was a Man. Precocious Noel Coward, incessant tosser-off of suavely sexual plays, tossed this one off a bit too carelessly. Though the Lord Chamberlain suppressed the piece in London, Broadway showed signs last week of yawning at one more husband world-wearily indifferent to his cuckoldom...
...disappoints. Irene Bordoni, brilliant, charming in her own, more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...