Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by Documentarian John Taylor, with Poet W. H. Auden contributing to its commentary, The Londoners contains no boosts for the gas company but devotes all its footage to London, before and after L. C. C. days. Its staging of Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London...
Baptists throughout the world, apprised of the plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
...kind of international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...
England. Twenty years ago a genial Englishman named John Collings Squire, parodist, poet and expert cricketer, launched The London Mercury. Its main aim was to publish poetry, especially the work of his friends, Robert Bridges, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Well-printed, heavy, smooth, The Mercury was appreciated by poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...
...form of contributions by Auden, Spender, et al. By January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s., circulation had climbed to 6,000. Readers of the current (April) issue read a stiff-upper-lip editorial announcing that it would be the last. The London Mercury was broke. Reason: A catastrophic slump in subscribers and advertisers due to "political and economic tempests of the last year...