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Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...
...George V's New Year's Honors List, for the reason that His Majesty is saving up for a spate of honors to be showered down on his Silver Jubilee (May 6, 1935). This week he upped only three subjects to the peerage: Sir Henry Betterton, Sir Wyndham Portal, Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh. To the plethora of titles with which his eldest son is burdened he added those of Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Army, Chief Marshal of the Air Force...
Britannia Waives the Rules is sympathetically introduced by emancipated Britisher D. B. Wyndham Lewis, who strikes the highest note in the book by quoting an anonymous Irish poet: " 'Every time I land at Dover I feel as if I were being softly butted behind by a brown woollen elephant with blue glass eyes...
SOME years ago when the average reader thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over...
Ushers for the event are John E. Barnet 4G, Alfred C. Butterfield '37, Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Branford P. Millar '35, Benjamin C. Riggs '37, Douglas C. Scott '35, Robert E. Simon, Jr. '35, Wyndham M. Southgate '31, assistant in History, and Roy W. Winsauer...