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...parodist of England, Editor Squire of the London Mercury, when "sturdy tenantry" assembled at Norman grey Arundel Castle to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Premier Duke and Earl of England, shy, none-too-bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors. He flunked the entrance examinations...
...Milwaukee, Wisconsin speaking for the Chafee Club will argue against V. V. R. Booth of Bennington, Vermont and R. F. Young of Dayton, Ohio for the Warren Club. The other wing of the semi-final will find Edward Darling of Kingston, Pennsylvania and C. T. Lane of Richmond, Surrey County, England for the Bryce Club opposing C. A. Howard Jr. of Aberdeen, South Dakota and E. B. Hanley '27 of Seattle, Washington of the Scott Club. A unique feature of the arguments is the custom of distributing briefs to aid the audience in following the successive stages of the case...
...Woking, Surrey, England, Widow F. E. Stevens, 84, was trundled into St. John's Church in a wheelchair, married to one Cyril Mills, 23, son of an Australian bicyclist...
...have determined that we shall not allow technical points to override great public issues involved in our being able to come to a settlement." Loyal Help: Over 15 million dollars was to have been spent on building the war boats postponed by Britain last week- namely the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, the submarine "mother ship" Maidstone, and two submarines. Thousands of workmen will have to be taken off these well-paying jobs. They are unionized, potent. Last week the Labor party's Ramsay MacDonald simply dared not throw too many shipyard constituents out of work. Therefore his speech contained...
Freddy is a blinking, fatuous caretaker on the Surrey estate of one Gommery who is busy trying to seduce a London actress. This leaves Mrs. Gommery idle, repressed. She would like to have Caretaker Freddy take care of her. Frightened, as an excuse for leaving, he invents for himself a-mistress in London to whom he must repair. By chance he selects the name of Mr. Gommery's actress. This mock disclosure precipitates an extremely dull, English-accented farce in the P. G. Wodehouse manner but without the Wodehumor. C. Stafford Dickens is playwright and Gommery. Raymond Walburn...