Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With "Four Feathers," Hollywood offers to what has now become a somewhat suspecting public another example of victorious British imperialism. Mr. Mason's story of a coward seeking to regain his self-respect while England is avenging the murder of General Gordon no longer proves to be very exciting, or even interesting, fare. Whether it is the slow-paced direction or the European war that detracts from the glory of the Sudan campaign and Omdurman is hard to tell. It is probably a combination of both, with the former chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great...
...your otherwise complete article on Paul McNutt, you failed to mention whether he was a Mason. I have recently heard from both Masons and non-Masons that no man will ever go to the White House who is not a 32nd Degree Mason. If true, here is a political factor far more important than the Legion. How many of our Presidents have been Masons, and how do the prospective 1940 candidates stand in this respect...
Story of Four Feathers, from a Kiplingesque novel by A. E. W. Mason, concerns a young British officer who leaves his regiment on the eve of active duty, gets white feathers from his three old messmates and a fourth from his disillusioned fiancée, and then goes through hell & hot water to give them back. Although this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting...
...there is one town north of the Mason and Dixon that makes an art of looking backward, it is the venerable stronghold of entrenched society, Newport...
...companies, 27 finance companies, 16 banks. The Bank of England has only one M.P.-Sir Alan Anderson-among its directors, but Sir Alan is also a director of railroads and ship lines that have other M.P.s on their directorates. Typical of Parliamentary financiers is Lieut. Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, who is a director of the Midland Bank (biggest in England) and vice chairman of powerful Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. When family backgrounds are considered, the financial power of Tory M.P.s looks towering. Lord Wimborne, a director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself...