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Died. Sir Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading, 75, British Empire No. 1 Jew, onetime Lord Chief Justice; (1913-21), Viceroy of India (1921-26) of heart disease; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Business, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Marquess of Londonderry was resoundingly dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel's Inn, Edith's Inkpot | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Married. George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 22, 9th Duke of Roxburghe, Premier Baronet of Scotland, rich grandson of the late, rich Ogden Goelet of Newport; and Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, 20, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Crewe; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Long before A Midsummer Night's Dream had got beyond the casting stage in Hollywood, London literary bigwigs were holding indignation meetings to denounce Hollywood's "impudence" in meddling with such a classic. In London last week, where U. S. Ambassador Bingham, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Marquess of Queensberry, Sir Philip Ben Greet, and a theatre full of their peers saw the opening. newspaper critics agreed that A Mid-summer Night's Dream was "exquisite." '"dazzling," ''magnificent," "of extraordinary beauty." In Manhattan, where so many reviewers attended the first night that the gala premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Side-Show | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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