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Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...Whether she has or not this is a modern fairy story with the Beautiful Princess and the Handsome Prince and the Elderly Lover translated into up-to-date characters which should please all those who are fond of the novels of the second writer to come from Stratford-on-Avon...
Francis Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Cathedral, London (not the Abbey), spoke words at Stratford-on-Avon which have gone out to the uttermost parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations. He said: " We members of the Catholic Evidence Guild are out to reinstate the Pope. We want him to be the spiritual and ethical leader of the country and we are not hiding that fact...
...beautiful is spring! Especially spring here at home in Stratford-on-Avon. Spring, as someone has said, is the birth of the year. I have been working hard in London on some new plays for the Globe Theatre, and I just ran down to Stratford for a few days to see my father and the old friends here in the home town. Oh, if you young people who have stage ambitions will only remember to love your home town wherever it may be, and go back to it once in a while, you will spare yourself contact with so many...
...tour of the British Isles will include several days in London, short visits at Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh and the industrial centers of Manchester and Glasgow, with brief stays at many places identified with the joint heritage of the English-speaking peoples such as Stratford-on-Avon, Melrose, Kenilworth, Abbotsford, and Loch Lomond. In addition there will be a three days' coaching trip through North Wales, three days more in the lake district, and nearly a week in the Scottish Highlands. The party is also scheduled to visit several Cathedral towns on the east coast of England...