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...assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike's men across the Lake, called a scalp. It was the Speaker's wig. The raiders took them all, as well as the royal standard flying over the Governor's house...
...ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard. The wig had vanished...
...this seemed no great crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
...London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious...
...clothes-swishing robes, shiny boots & swords-suggest a highschool senior in a commencement play. England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guardsmen in tights. But at last when in a roomful of officers she learns her husband is dead, her wrath and majesty...