Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white people in Singapore. Best shot: A battle between a mongoose and a cobra. (Originally released by Ufa as a short feature this interjection was bought by Paramount and spliced into the plot for atmosphere...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, Bishop of Edinburgh, 75, "kindest man in Scotland," father of Novelist Hugh Walpole and onetime (1889-96) professor of dogmatic theology at the General Theological Seminary (Manhattan); in Edinburgh...
...particularize this pageant it may be recalled that "the Officers of Arms habited in their tabards and attended by the Sergeants at Arms shall assemble at St. James's Palace and there proceed to the balcony in Friary Court" with the six Heralds-Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester†-thereupon trumpeteers sound a "fanfare" and the proclamation is first read by the Garter Principle King of Arms, at present Sir Henry Farnham Burke...
...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...
...will be interesting to now that the open season for attractive ybung males is on in Boston, whether the deplorable lack of interest in outside activity will limit the number of stags at the Somerset during the long winter evenings. Anxious motherhood may well feel an unusual apprehension in view of the widespread rumor that students are now interested in studies. If Harvard men forsake the ball-room, this last infirmary for noble minds, and refuse to go, marching in close order to answer a maiden's prayer, undergraduate interest in things intellectual will Indeed be permanently confirmed...