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... By Elizabeth Bowen I errorists THOSE who remember back to the cosy Edwardian days may recollect that, then, the word Nihilist made one's childish flesh creep. Across a Europe still secure and polite there travelled alarming stories from Imperial Russia there, one understood, any Tsar and his family went in constant peril from the Nihilist's bomb. Actually, at the time of which speak no Tsar ...
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... MYSELF AT TIE PICTURES Magnificent, If You Like It By James Agate READER, let us do away with cant and realize that some seventy, per cent of cinema goers have never seen a play acted by flesh-and-blood actors, while quite ninety per cent of them have never seen a Shakespeare play performed in the theatre. I propose, therefore, in what follows to put forward the views on Henry V (Carlton) of ...
... C- Off /)ty A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Guests at the Palace THEIR MAJESTIES' first official guests at Buckingham Palace after the period of mourning for the Queen's father were Lord Gowrie, V.C., the retiring Governor- General of Australia, and Lady Gowrie, who had lunch with them. Undoubtedly, Lord Gowrie had a great deal to tell the King: and undoubtedly, too, the King had even ...
... Mrs Guy Beauchamp and Susan Formerly Miss Susan North, younger sister of the late Lord North, Mrs. Beauchamp is co-heiress with her sister, Mrs. Clive Graham, to the barony now in abeyance. She and her small daughter, Susan, were photographed at their home, Under Ridge, Bourne End Mrs. Clive Graham and Penelope* Mrs. Graham, elder sister of Mrs. Beauchamp, was married in 1937 to Lt. Clive ...
... One of the youngest men of his rank in the R.A.F., Air Vice-Marshal Harry Broadhurst took command of a fighter group of the Second Tactical Air Force in June. He was one of the first pilots to land in Normandy on D+4 Day, and within a few days had transferred his headquarters to French soil. In July he piloted the Prime Minister when he flew over the Allied lines in Normandy. Air Vice-Marshal ...
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... -^4 By Sabretache Datvn A MOST charming Voice recently informed the massed brains of the B.B.C. that that hour which finds the night at odds with the dawn, made its owner feel like nothing upon earth. This condition is by no means abnormal, for there are many to whom Dawn's Left Hand feels exactly like a wet fish, and who make no profession at all to be fit for human consumption until the ...
... By Elizabeth Bowen Happiness is an Odd Thing JANIE suddenly said, Do you think, Granny, that Great-Aunt Alice was ever happy? And Mrs. Parkington answered, No, my dear. And, after a moment, she said, Happiness is an odd thing. Perhaps people who have never known it are not really unhappy. I do not know whether Alice ever knew that she was unhappy. Sometimes I think only that life was ...
... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THIS story comes from Time to Laugh (Partridge Publications):-- The Glasgow Rangers and Celtic football match is always an event to stir the emotions of the crowd, and the rivalry between the two supporting sides runs very high. The Protestant v. Catholic element is an important factor in the matter. At one match a spectator loudly cheered when Celtic ...
... The Life of Chopin Paris in the 19th Century; George Sand, Liszt, Paganini, Balzac and Pleyel Balzac a fabulous fig ure mentally and phy sically Peter CusaneUi) The young Chopin is forced to flee his native Poland. He leaves be hind his boyhood sweetheart Con- stantia Cornel Wilde NinaFoch) George Sand a uoman of letters, of masterful disposition and passionate disregard of convention falls ...