Word: londonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sir A. Maurice Low, 68, of Washington, D. C., chief U. S. correspondent of the London Morning Post, 40 years a Washington newsgatherer; in Washington...
...long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss Poulton standing wearily in front of the window out of which she is going to jump before she struggles, with...
...London, a few hours before the French flyers landed in Spain, Sir Arthur Witten Brown lunched with encomiums. On June 14, 1919, he and the late Sir John Alcock started from St. Johns, Newfoundland, in a Vickers-Vimy-Rolls with two Rolls-Royce motors. Next day they Ianded at their precise destination, Clifden, Ireland...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...
...time Schmeling was an art student. He was also a miner, a structural iron worker, a copyboy in the advertising department of a German newspaper. He wanted to be a sailor but his mother said nein. Since he has learned English he revels in Conrad, Jack London, Western stories. He solemnly avers that in German he reads Gerhart Hauptmann and, of course, Goethe, Schiller...