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Dramatis Personae: Viscount Brentford (carrying a cake of soap), the Bishop of Durham, Lords Ponsonby, Hailsham, Newton...
...Viscount Brentford, famed as Sir William ("Jix'') Joynson-Hicks during his Mrs. Grundyish term as Home Secretary (1924-29). with emotion...
...Viscount Hailsham, rising to get the last word in the debate for his party (Conservative): "I doubt if there has ever been made in this House a speech more equivocal, inconsistent, unsatisfactory and deliberately evasive as that just delivered by Lord Ponsonby...
William Waldorf Astor (born in New York City) moved to England in 1890, became naturalized in 1899, was created Baron Astor in 1916, Viscount Astor a year later, died in 1919. His son, the present Waldorf Viscount Astor, last week did the most un-swank thing possible, closed his magnificent Thames-side mansion "Cliveden" (where Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford were presented to George V and Queen Mary...
...Canadian Governor General's prospective flag is the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain since 1922 and a leading member of "the Buckingham Palace clique." In respectful terms of loyalty, devotion, Lord Cromer declined last week to be appointed Governor General of Canada in succession to Viscount Willingdon who will soon go as Viceroy to India (TIME...