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Heckling the Prime Minister, Laborites read excerpts from an old letter in which Scot MacDonald, an industrious pacifist during the War, certainly appeared to encourage sedition. "That is a private letter!" snapped the Prime Minister, cold with fury...
With no faintest hint of scandal, the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry are now said to have "seduced" Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. It is they who enticed the silver-haired Scot out of dingy surroundings in which he moved even three years ago, launched him in Mayfair's glittering swim...
...MacDonald was "that Pacifist!" ? the lowest of socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...
...seduction" of the Scot continued until his whole outlook on life has come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...
...comedy in which Sir James Barrie expressed this sentiment was first produced in the U. S. in 1908 with Maude Adams playing the lead, revived in 1926 for Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes has the same part in the cinema version- that of Maggie Wylie who marries a solemn young Scot against his will, helps him get elected to Parliament, manages his career for him so unobtrusively that he considers his accomplishments inspired by a glamorous outsider. Only when John Shand (Brian Aherne) tries to get along without Maggie does he begin to realize what she has meant...