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...uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guards, she watched the Trooping the Color ceremony on London's Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham, who joined the exclusive ranks (limit: 50 members) of the Companions of Honor; sharp-tongued Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, 66, now a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire; solid Sir Gladwyn Jebb, 54, now Britain's Ambassador to France after four years as Britain...
...SOMERSET MAUGHAM...
...that seemed to leave Britons just about where they started. A correspondent from Timberscombe, Somerset began all over again: "Is fissive admissive...
Miss Sadie Thompson (Columbia) is at least the third major screen version of the Somerset Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...
After leaving Harvard the Greek royalty lunched with Governor Herter, and later in the afternoon held a reception for 5,000 Greek-Americans at the Somerset Hotel in Boston. They boarded their plane...