Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. In London, Angus Harper declared that he had laced the family butter with slug poison, just to "annoy" his in-laws. In Newhall, Calif., Mrs. Nettie M. Weismeyer said that one reason why she had shot her husband was that he used bad grammar...
...Royal Family rolled up to London's Odeon Theatre last week for an event that had been long awaited: the world premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet...
Almost all London's critics agreed that the film was worth everything that had gone into it: more than $2,000,000 (J. Arthur Rank's) and six months of hard work. Said the Evening Standard: "It has moments of rare beauty and feeling such as the cinema has seldom seen . . . Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors...
...Princess will startle readers who think of James, the expatriate, as the man who was saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people...
...them is the Princess Casamassima, who no longer lives with the Italian prince she married. Taking her do-gooding more seriously than her fellow aristocrats, she moves to a shabby little London house, gives the prince's money away to the poor and even offers to assassinate a duke for the anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet...