Word: marlborough
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DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
...widow Clementine, like most Britons, is a victim of inflation. When word got out that she was selling family heirlooms and that she was getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace. Is it too much to ask that Parliament, by speedy and special resolution, now grant a modest pension to Sir Winston's widow? That at least would be an act of belated grace...
Robin Hood, with Shakespeare's Macbeth will be presented by the Boston Shakespeare Company. Robin Hood will be based on the Howard Pyle stories, and play on Friday and Saturday at 8. Macbeth is showing Thursdays at 8. Both dramas are at the Theatre, corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets...
...England Pianoforte Teachers' Association. Mary Sadovnikoff, from Brown University, in a lecture-recital on "The Fortepiano and its Music" at 9:45 a.m. at the First and Second Church, 66 Marlborough St. in Boston. Free. Information...
Macbeth. The Boston Shakespeare Company witches boil their brew. At the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston, Thursday and Saturday...