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...Manhattan's Doctors Hospital was found a patient named William Shakespeare, 54, Southampton, L. I. carpenter with gallstones. Said he: "My father was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and he and my mother used to say that we are descendants of the old man. I got a hold of one of his plays years ago-Romeo and Juliet, I think-and I started to read it, but it didn't make sense to me. One of my boys I named William Shakespeare- after me, not the play writer. I don't take much stock in names...
This onslaught left the House of Lords gaping and gasping. "I had nothing to do with drafting the obnoxious clause," bleated the Master of the Rolls, Baron Hanworth of Hanworth, onetime High Steward of Stratford-on-Avon and President of the Magna Charta Society...
Proud of Britain, fond of the U. S., Reporter Bullen found time and energy to be an indefatigable organizer of hands-across-the-sea movements. He started the American Shakespeare Foundation, helped the late Otto H. Kahn raise $1,000,000 to rebuild the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. He raised $300,000 for destitute Belgians, $5,000 for a memorial to Antarctic Explorer Scott, $15,000 "to provide pensions for necessitous grandnieces" of Charles Dickens. He organized the League of Remembrance of the U. S., to join with Great Britain in observing a two-minute silence...
...plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary...
...Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...