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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedaux arrived on the Europa same day that Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson was discovered among the Queen Mary's, disembarking passengers (see p. 40) along with British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Sir Ronald divulged that he had "dropped around" to see Mr. Bedaux in London about Windsor's plans, had himself "scratched down the names of a few cities" as possible suggestions. Mr. Bedaux, after going into a half hour huddle with his lawyer, denied that he was the Duke's "manager," said the Duke preferred to make his own announcements. Nobody knew whether...
Angel (Paramount) concerns Lady Maria's (Marlene Dietrich) rather pathetic effort to cast off her loyalty to her diplomat husband, Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall). Angel is not a slut but a wife whose fidelity has been overstrained by Sir Frederick's immersion in diplomacy. And he, for all his fine deliberate charm, is the type of fellow who. when his wife tells him that she has been dreaming, immediately asks...
...through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...
...their machine to be running in about a month. But Lord Rutherford will never see it start. He died last week, aged 66, after failing to rally from an abdominal operation. His passing evoked expressions of grief and tribute from all over the scientific world. Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science...
Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also...