... STAGE CAMEOS. By JOHN RUSSELL. IT is now perhaps twenty years since Mr. James Agate said of a new play by Mr. Noel Coward that, having only one rather simple point to make, the author pursued it with the single mindedness of a sleep ing-car attendant ...

... the present Headmaster, the Rev. H. M. S. Taylor, is carrying on its high tradition. On its Roll stand the names of Lord John Russell and Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Curzon and Lord Hardinge, Admirals of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee and Sir Hedworth ...

... most famous was Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell, and a Knight of the Garter. He held offices of state, framed and carried the first Reform Bill in 1832, and then repealed the Corn Laws in 1846. And his nephew, LordOdo Russell, was a man of parts ...

... STAGE CAMEOS. By JOHN RUSSELL. MR. FREDERICK VALK'S OTHELLO came as a refreshing and heartening excite ment in some of the darkest and heaviest days of the war, and Mr. Donald Wolfit has earned our gratitude by recalling Mr. Valk's monumental bogey-man ...

... in memory of Thackeray, thanked God for the gift Thackeray had made to theworld in Colonel Newcome. Yet the school under John Russell, in the days of Thackeray's boyhood, was by no means a comfortable place of learning, and Thackeray himself said that he ...

... he became a Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Palmerston's second Ministry. Three years later he entered the Cabinet of Lord John Russell as Secretary of State for War. In Mr. Gladstone's first Ministry of 1868 he held the office of Postmaster-General until ...

... influence in their vouth on the celebrities turned out by the school. All three sons Abbot were there, several bishops, and John Russell, co-founder of the Royal Academy. Over 1,000 years of continuous town life explains why the old place retains its proud ...

... STAGE CAMEOS. By JOHN RUSSELL. ENGLISH opera-productions have always suffered from the incapacity of even the best English singers to sing and act at the same moment. The act of singing appears to hold them fast, as if in a strait-jacket or diving-bell ...

... STAGE CAMEOS. By JOHN RUSSELL. THOSE who are curious to know what song the Sirens sang will not be any the wiser for seeing Les Sirènes, at Covent Garden; geographers may be surprised to find a standard English pier doing duty on the south coast of ...

... Dryden, scholars like Elmsley, Churchmen like George Herbert, administrators like Warren Hastings, statesmen like Lord John Russell went through much the same training during their time at Westminster. That is the way Westminster views them. For others ...

... STAGE CAMEOS. By JOHN RUSSELL. FEW playgoers can recently have seen any English play written between 1779 (The Critic) and 1892 (Lady Winder mere's Fan). This period was nevertheless one of promiscuous fecundity in the English theatre. Everyone wrote ...

... wonders what fhe Ides of March will tell. It will be a tremendous iccasion. Being an Englishman, I rather hope hey won't give John Russell a cap. I wonder they haven't before. He is Leicester's scrum half a player of great experience and tenacity, who held his ...