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From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian...
Married. Hugh Algernon Percy, 32, tenth Duke of Northumberland, lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur and of Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...
...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...
...added: "England was conquered twice in its history, once by William the Norman in 1066, and again by Montagu the Norman in 1931." (Until 1944, Montagu Collet Norman was Governor of the Bank...
...were world powers. In the 19th Century, the pound sterling, under the bank's leadership, became a universal currency - a circumstance shattered by World War I which broke up the gold standard, and left England debt-ridden. In the post-World War I period, under recently-retired Governor Montagu Collet Norman, it reestablished the gold standard for six years, thereafter became a virtual adjunct of the British Treasury...