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...more ceremonious than the inauguration of a President of the U. S. was the arrival in Bombay last week of the new Viceroy of India, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow. Ahead of him had arrived his New Deal, the renovated and liberalized Indian Constitution based on Lord Linlithgow's own exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that...
...career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that both organizations have increased their audiences measurably, extended their seasons. The Philharmonic announced these facts proudly last week. Still many were surprised that Barbirolli's engagement was for a ten-week period, wondered why he was not given a chance...
...Scottish immigrant, David G. Blythe was born May 9, 1815 in a forest clearing near East Liverpool, Ohio. At 16 he was apprenticed to a Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...
...time "The Wind and the Rain" opened, the "Theatre World" said, "It is a charming comedy of Scottish student life, notable for its dexterous character drawing, amusing dialogue and delightful love scenes . . . strongly recommended to all lovers of light comedy...
...orchestra plays at the Drake Hotel and over the radio sponsored by Standard Oil of Indiana. By this week, when Real Silk Hosiery was to take over the sponsorship, critics were convinced that an amazing musical talent had quietly turned up in Chicago. Young Templeton was born blind, of Scottish parents, on a farm near Cardiff in Wales. At 2, he played the piano, imitating the notes of a nearby church bell. At 4, he composed a lullaby with which his mother sang him to sleep. At 5, he directed a choir of his playmates. When Alec...