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...gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe at the Premier's official residence-where Premier Inukai was assassinated a year before-was given in honor of our Methodist Bishop...
...winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress Holtby was old enough to serve as a "Waac" (Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps) during the War; afterwards went to Oxford, where she took her M. A. in history at Somerville. An able speaker, a director of Time & Tide, Viscountess Rhondda's weekly, she lives a crowded, busy life in Chelsea, London's intellectual quarter...
Sued for Divorce. By Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt: Marmaduke, 1st Viscount Furness. London shipping man; in London. Charge: misconduct...
...Viscountess Snowden of Ickornshaw, speechmaking, even by radio, is no novelty. Back in 1905 when she was the clever, young, pretty wife of a struggling Socialist journalist named Philip Snowden, she was very busy speechmaking for Women's Suffrage and Temperance. Today Lady Snowden is a governor of the British Broadcasting Corp., patroness of opera and theatre, a justice of peace herself, a valiant opponent of Bolshevism. To the U. S. last week she spoke, over a transatlantic hookup, on another subject which has occupied much of her time: Religion. Lady Snowden is a Primitive Methodist, former Sunday School...
...Viscountess Astor, M. P. sits for the great naval port of Plymouth. When the Royal Navy staged its "greatest mutiny in 134 years" (TIME, Sept. 28), the Noble Lady was naturally distressed. Rushing down to Plymouth she arrived just as the unrepentant Atlantic Fleet steamed in. Last week Plymouth's Nancy was back in London breathless with naval news...