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Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...
...Author. David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England, in 1885, went to Nottingham High School, Nottingham University. In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen. Declared consumptive three times and unfit for service, he was hounded by the military police. After the War he left England, wandered through Europe, lived in Italy, Australia, now lives in the U. S., 15 miles from Taos, N. Mex. He was a great friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, of her husband J. Middleton Murry...
...with considerable versatility and enthusiasm. Fully half of the musical numbers are sung by the full company, and so reach a volume befitting the atmosphere of the outlaw group. Scenery, costumes, the Morris Dance in the first act, the later settings in Sherwood Forest and in the courtyard at Nottingham, are all attractive and pleasantly recall the Merrie England of the ballad. Robin Hood The Cast Sudworth Frazier Sheriff of Nottingham William Danforth Sir Guy Gisborne John Cherry Little John Greek Evans Will Scarlet Charles Galagher Friar Tuck William White Allan-a-Dale Lorna Doone Jackson Lady Marian Fitzwalter Olga...
...Emil Klein Co., Inc. ("Haddon Hall," "Nottingham" and "Emanelo" hand-made cigars): $414,000 as against...
...Department of Commerce's trade scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets...