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...Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, W. K. conductor here, has completed a modern and Japanized version of Puccini's Madame Butterfly which has been submitted to Paramount for possible production. . . . Konoye leaves for America July 21 and if agreeable, production will start soon after his arrival...
...Variety last week, this news item appeared under the headline, "Poor Butterfly Gets Jap Rewrite and Modernization; Par to Produce?" Variety's Tokyo correspondent evidently considered it unnecessary to mention that in addition to being a W. K. (well-known) conductor, Viscount Konoye is also brother of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. In Tokyo the Premier's brother's new Butterfly caused no commotion at all. This was because Viscount Konoye, whose family has assimilated easygoing Western ways and whose nephew is captain of Princeton's golf team, scandalized Tokyo society so thoroughly...
...Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn Europe refreshing in their own right. Haruko Ichikawa is a granddaughter of the late Viscount Shibusewa, one of the first Japanese to travel abroad (1866). Her diary covers a year's travel with her husband, English department head of Tokio's Imperial University, on an Albert Kahn Travelling Fellowship...
...Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm." Earl Baldwin...
After mature deliberation Sir Stanley Baldwin, K. G. announced that his new title would be the Earl Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale and not Bewdley as most Britons had expected. Bewdley, the district in Worcestershire which Stanley Baldwin represented continuously in Parliament since 1908, was closely connected in the minds of British cartoonists with the pigs Squire Baldwin has long raised there. To bear the courtesy title of Viscount Corvedale at once is Earl Baldwin's Laborite Son Oliver who remains, until his father's death, eligible for the House of Commons...