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...year by the British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When...
...consternation London dressmakers estimated that 1,000 of the richest women in the realm will fail to buy the new gowns they would have worn to Londonderry House, with a consequent loss "to the trade" which they set roundly at $500,000. Baffled by Baldwin, Lady Londonderry was expected to return to her pen which has already produced such dainty books as The Magic Inkpot...
...truly royal train; a small royal palace traveling at a mile a minute" is the proud description of King Vittorio Emanuele's train by its stiff-necked, arrogantly bourgeois builder, Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli, Senator of the Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train...
...Nazis would not be consistent if they did permit opposition groups to train freely for the coming Olympic Games. We have only to consult Bruno Malitz's book "Sports in the National Socialist Ideology" to find the roots from which springs the atavistic treatment of minorities in the realm of sport. To give Herr Malitz, a sports leader of the Storm Troops the floor...
...scenery for Lysistrata and King Lear amply testify, Norman Bel Geddes is no stranger in the realm of artistic imagination. In Dead End, "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats...