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...Majesty's Governor General, slender, serene, punctilious Viscount Willingdon, began last week to enjoy a brief spring holiday on the Pacific coast of Canada, some 2,200 miles from Ottawa, his Capitol...
...time, four years ago, when the Woodrow Wilson Foundation inaugurated its custom of making occasional awards, M. Mestrovitch was asked to design the accompanying commemorative medal. He thereupon designed the Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal which has been given in turn to Viscount Cecil, Mr. Elihu Root and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. M. Mestrovitch contributed his services entirely without charge, as his personal tribute to the memory of the American President who aided the Jugoslavs to achieve national freedom and unity...
...play is The Making of an Immortal. Edward of Wales attended its premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling...
Died. George Cave, Viscount and Earl, 72, at Burnham-on-Sea, Somersetshire...
Engaged. Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 22, fourth Viscount Hardinge and aide-de-camp to Lord Willingdon, Governor General of Canada, and Miss Margot Fleming, of Wynwards, Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, granddaughter of Sir Sandford Fleming, one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific...