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Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Markham-Skipworth, 57, is Hollywood's most reliable grande dame or "high class wicked woman." At 20 she was the wife of artist Frank Markham-Skipworth and starving in London. "To keep from starving" she took a part as understudy to Marie Tempest in The Artist's Model, nine months later was playing the lead in Manhattan. She once paid Douglas Fairbanks Sr. $40 a week as a juvenile. She has owned a chicken farm on Long Island for 28 years, will some day retire...
British and Irish opinion was further provoked last week by a tempest in the teapot of Irish Free State Governor Gen eral James McNeill, appointed by George V but obliged to act on the Free State Cabinet's advice. Similarly His Majesty is obliged to act upon the British Cabinet's advice, would never think of doing otherwise. But last week Governor Gen eral James McNeill flatly disregarded the advice of the Free State Cabinet that he keep to himself certain complaints which he desired to make...
...trying to be cryptic. They were the only English words she knew. If she can learn quickly enough, she will be Ronald Colman's leading lady in Samuel Goldwyn's production of The Brothers Karamazov. Producer Goldwyn saw her in the Tobis production Karamazov, later in Tempest, with Emil Jannings. He cabled his agent to give her a contract if she could learn English quickly. Actress Sten thought it would take about two weeks...
...Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest," Professor J. T. Murray, Harvard...
Following these five-minute speaches, Mr. N. R. Tempest, Commonwealth Fund Fellow at Harvard and formerly of the Roundhan School, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, will address the teachers on "Supervision of English in America and Great Britain: Comparisons and Contrasts...