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The Bystander
Social Register: The Season Opens with the Opera and the Academy
... Social Register Tlid Season Opens with the Opera and the Academy A NIGHT AT THE OPERA Sir Edmund and Lady Findlay Sir Edmund and Lady Findlay also went to hear Smetana's The Bartered Bride sung in German, its first Coven t Garden performance since 1907. Sir Edmund Findlay is M.P. for Banff- shire, and proprietor of the Scotsman A WESTMINSTER ABBEY WEDDING Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox and her ...
The Bystander visits The World's Fair at New York
... The Bystander visits The World's Fair at New York On a damp day the last in April President Roosevelt drove out to the 1216-acre site on Long Island, ten miles from Manhattan, and declared the New York World's Fair open. Though the Fair's inception was three and a half years ago its site being then marshy, waste land and though Grover W halen's men made a feverish last-week push, the opening ...
Films of the Day: Hollywood Does Us Proud
... Films of the Day Hollywood Does Us Proud By George Campbell IT is easy to laugh at Sam Goldwyn, but the man who planned a film by Maeterlinck, until he discovered the hero was a bee, at least never lacked courage. Would you put your money into a film of Wuthering Heights? I wouldn't. I should like to be able to prophesy that his daring will be rewarded, that Wuthering Heights will earn him a ...
Lord Lloyd, Publicist for the Empire
... Howard. Coster F.R.S.A. It has been said of Lord Lloyd that he was born two hundred years too late, that his restless, dominating character and his refusal to accept a different point of view from his own would have served him and his country better when the Empire was on the make, not the brake. George Lloyd was born in 1879 of the banking family, went from Eton to Cambridge, and coxed the ...
The Passing Hour: Comments and Asides
... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell j SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S speech was un expectedly mild, although his sup porters did their usual booing stuff when France was mentioned and faithfully applauded references to Berlin. But he has crystallised the claims of Italy. He wants concessions in Tunisia and Jibuti and a share in the Suez Canal. So far so clear. But he did not say what ...
New York Letter: Flowers and Snow
... New York Letter By Lorine Pruette Flowers and Snow CONFIRMED New Yorkers-- what we might call the aficionados of the city spec tacle-- like to think their city has everything. Contrast is the order of the day, sometimes to the point of incongruity. As this week, when one of the worst snowstorms ushered in the International Flower Show at the Grand Central Palace. bir William Wright smith, ol ...
Sportfolio: Rowing, Racing, Golf, Rugger and Rain
... Srknrtfnlin Rowing, Racing, Golf, OJJOI llUllU Rugger and Rain The R.A.F. heat the Army for a surprise victory in the last of the matches of the Services tournament, by scoring a goal, dropped goal, penalty goal and two tries to the Army's single penalty goal. Though the Twickenham match did not influence the championship, already held by the Navy the result was a feather in the R.A.F.'s cap ...
Motoring Commentary
... By Alan C. Hess IT was, of course, always unthinkable that a car which hac built up such wonderful goodwill as the Riley should go out of production for ever. When the Nuffield interests acquired control of the Riley concern some months ago, speculation was rife as to the Company's precise future. The announcement of the 1939 Riley range has been eagerly awaited for months, and now at last it ...
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The Bystander's Easter Appeal for Charity
... The 46 Bystander's Easter Appeal for Charity WHAT better way is there of celebrating the end of Lent and the joyful festival of Easter than a con tribution to one or some of the organis ations working for the welfare of poor or sick people in this kingdom? It is well to remem ber, when so many appeals are being made for unfor tunates of many countries and races, that charity begins at home, ...
Other
... What's On THEATRES Straight Plays The Corn is Green. Emlyn Williams's biographical play is full of life Athene Seyler as a go ahead Welsh scnoolniistress, Williams as her genius protdgd Duchess. 8.30. Wed., Sat., 2.30. Dear Octopus. Cast headed by Marie Tempest, Valerie Taylor, Leon Quartermaine, John Gielgud does justice to Dodie Smith's family portraiture Queen's, 8.15. Wed., Sat. 2.30. ...