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After the war Felix Lloyd Powell wrote other tunes, which were never very popular. He got into real estate in the town of Peacehaven on the Sussex Coast, became the vice chairman of the Piddinghoe Parish Council, was embroiled in a campaign to change Peacehaven's name to Southcliffe. When World War II came, 53-year-old Felix Lloyd Powell joined the Home Guard. Last year he tried his hand at composition again, wrote a song called Home Guards on Patrol. One stanza went...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...
...volumes; $21.50). A fluent, pulsing performance of Mozart's comedy of rococo love, the last of his operas to be recorded complete. Così fan tutte, like the recorded Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, was expertly given before the war at John Christie's Glyndebourne Manor, Sussex, England. Conductor Busch and the soprano star of Così fan tutte, Ina Souez, figured in Manhattan performances of the opera last month...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, daughter of eight Dukes, was patriotically collecting swill for her pigs from door to door in Bognor Regis, Sussex, when she was picked up on three traffic charges. ∽∽ Third wife Sylvia, ex-Lady Ashley got her $3,000 monthly allowance from Douglas Fairbanks' estate continued for six months. Other heirs had claimed this was more than the income on her half-share, for the estate may be much less than the $2,000,000 Doug thought he was leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess...
...family was inclined to think that Virginia Woolf was a suicide. They did not agree that her suicide had been brought on by the war. The Woolfs have spent most of World War II in an isolated cottage, Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...