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...music-loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy. When he was 11, deaf old Beethoven is reported to have kissed him for his playing. Liszt's father took him to Paris, where he studied, gave public and private concerts, astounded all comers. He was fair, good-looking, wore long hair. Father Liszt knew what he was talking about when he said: "With you, it is women I am afraid...
Starting democratically by motor-coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia...
...frequently happens in marine disasters, the first boatload of women upset while being lowered to the water. The second, sucked close to the still-thrashing propellers, was smashed. At least four women were drowned and more would have perished had not Steward Willy Bruns dived bravely from the rail of the third deck to their rescue. Apart from this accident, the rest of the survivors were landed safely...
...occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make the picture another British threat to Hollywood. Typical shot: the financier, just after he has taken an overdose of adrenalin, giving the deck steward a ?5 note...
...Fisk '75 and Mr. W. A. Jaillet, auditor and steward respectively of the Harvard Dining Association, have tended their resignations...