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Birthday. Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst, illegitimate "eugenic baby" of famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working...
...Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of this cinema have done in their turn. They have created no pedantic replica of Elizabethan comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly...
...Museum discovered that most visitors were housewives, that more stenographers visited than artists, that 28,000 arrived by private car, 32,000 by taxi. The majority came because "someone told them about it." The favorite room in the Museum was the Pennsylvania German* Hall and next the German bedroom. English paintings attracted 79.000; only 10,000 got any reaction from Oriental rugs...
William Lyon Phelps, A. B., Ph. D., A. M., Litt. D., Lampson Professor of the English Language & Literature at Yale University, Public Orator of Yale University, President of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Institute of Arts & Letters, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, author, critic, lecturer, preacher, cheerleader,* clubman (Authors, Ends of the Earth, Fano, Pundits, Faerie Queen, Elizabethan), wrote as follows in his monthly department ("As I Like It") in Scribner's magazine for December...
...absence. Dean Hector J. Hughes '94, of the Harvard Engineering School will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1929-30. Professor H. E. Clifford '89, has been named as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering during Dean Hughes' absence. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, professor of English, will be absent during the second half of 1929-30, on sabbatical leave. Professor Richmond Laurin Hawkins '03, of the Department of French, was granted leave of absence during the academic year...