Word: stratford-on-avon
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...Englishman of robust John Bull type greeted fragile Ambassador Andrew William Mellon and other U. S. pilgrims to the opening of the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon last week, booming with a throb in his deep bull voice, "From my heart welcome, welcome home...
...ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity for surrounding Character Belasco with the proper dramatic setting. Visitors at the studio above his theatre were shown his fireplace from the Alhambra, his chair made from a pew in a church at Stratford-on-Avon, his collection of 300 watches, knick-knacks and curiosities of all sorts. In his apartment in a quiet family hotel (the Gladstone) he had a miniature cathedral chancel in one of the closets. It is not likely that...
April 10-Arrival in New York City of Japan's Prince & Princess Takamatsu. April 13-May 16-Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon, England. April 19-Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, in France. April 20-Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26-Census Sunday in England. First...
April 13-May 16?Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon...
...Scottish-born descendant of Oliver Cromwell, married to a U. S. painter. She was "sent down" (expelled) from Somerville College, Oxford, for not working. She thinks men & women should go to separate universities.. With her husband and their two daughters, she lives in a Cotswold cottage near Stratford-on-Avon. A story-teller from infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen...