Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British air liners roar up daily from Croydon, air port of London, carry passengers to Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam for but little more than the price of a first class ticket by rail and water. Many a tourist, surprised at the cheapness of these fares asks: "Do the planes...
...special feature is, however, Miss Leginska herself. Abroad she has made a name for herself as an orchestral leader. In America she has on a number of occasions conducted large metropolitan orchestras. A London paper complimented her conducting with the remark that "she is as ambidextrous as a conductor as she necessarily has to be as a pianist." American orchestra have featured her work as exceptional and unique...
...years Thomas Marlowe has edited The Daily Mail. He became its editor when he was 31, and the London Times, in one of the grave laudatory editorials which that paper devotes to men of affairs whose opinions it has begun to suspect and whose terms of usefulness it believes to be over, last week paid tribute to Thomas Marlowe's "sturdy independence." Neither the Times nor Lord Rothermere could pay tribute to his discretion. The opinions which the peer so emphatically disclaimed touched on England's debt to the U. Su For several days Thomas Marlowe featured what...
...demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week, puffing and panting, swimmer Norman Leslie Derham of Southend waded ashore...
Married. Joan Bennett, youngest daughter of Actor Richard Bennett and Actress Adrienne Morrison Bennett (now divorced) ; to one John Martin Fox, son of steel and lumber merchant; at London. The now Mrs. Fox has two sisters: Constance, who married rich Philip M. Plant last year; Barbara, who was the onetime dancing partner of Maurice Mouvet...