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Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
That the delicacy, diffidence and power of Author Hémon's writing is in large part retained by this picture is doubtless due partly to the fact that Director Julien Duvivier made most of it on location. He took a cast of Paris actors to northern Quebec last year, used as many natives as possible for crowd scenes and bits. First shown in Paris last winter, Maria Chapdelaine promptly won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. More noteworthy is the fact that it has been even more successful in Germany, where the critic of the Berliner...
Perkins Hall--Theodore F. M. Newton of Montreal, Quebec; Instructor in English and Tutor...
...Brown. Extending nearly three miles along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business...
Canadian wiseacres last week guessed the general election would come the first or second Monday in October. Canada's new Novelist-Governor General, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, is to land in Quebec Oct. 10. Getting out Sept. 12 are the unpopular Earl of Bessborough and his Countess. To preserve Empire amenities, Canadian women's organizations are taking up a collection to present Lady Bessborough on her departure with a vase 16 inches high made by Canadian goldsmiths from Canadian gold...