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...Vortex?In a conspicuously eventful week this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...give a thought M. Quinones de Leon. It was noted by the bustling clerks at the Secretariat that the Liberian minister at Paris had addressed a note to the League conveying his nation's adherence to the recent Arms Control convention and strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum ot Boston, resident in Geneva, had denied that he was on hand...
Bright and early next morning the French Foreign Minister, obedient to the wishes of King George, paid a visit to Buckingham Palace. For 40 minutes he conversed with the British Sovereign and when, at the end of that time, he emerged between the high iron gates of the Palace, his chin and cheeks cleanly shaved, a wide smile lit his sallow countenance. From then on, everybody took it as a matter of course that his visit was bound to be successful...
...past week in Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.) began by a flat rejection by the French and Spanish of Abd-el-Krim's demand that peace negotiations must be preceded by unqualified recognition of the Riff area as an independent and sovereign State...
...immense throng of people gathered round the Duke of York at Richmond, where he had gone to open a public golf course by driving the first ball. To caddies, the Duke said: "I'll give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies...