Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steward on the Britannic: "In the pubs at Southampton they say 'he's a bloody fool. If he'd kept quiet, he could have had her on the side. But trying to put this over-it's too thick...
Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...
...apiece, of the cities he has seen. Yet for all his fame he is not above turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. Pride of Muirhead Bone are mural-panels by his son Stephen and daughter-in-law Mary, in the Queen Mary's library...
...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...
Ostensibly to study U. S. dancing, Sarah Churchill, 22-year-old daughter of famed British Tory Winston Churchill, hopped the steamer Bremen at Southampton. In London, the dancing daughter of Poet Robert Ranke Graves promptly tipped off the Daily Express that Sarah's ticket had been paid for by Comedian Vic Oliver, who had offered her a job in U. S. vaudeville, plus a wedding ring. Instantly Father Churchill dispatched Son Randolph on the Queen Mary to fetch Daughter Sarah back. Meanwhile inquiring Manhattan newshawks found Vic Oliver in a Broadway Hotel. Spouted he: "Miss Churchill is just another...