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...avoid Edward VIII's being called King of Canada, King of New Zealand, King of Ireland, etc., his title is ingeniously compressed and arranged backward.* Last week His Majesty ordered that the actual situation created by enactment of the Statute of Westminster (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931 ) be squarely faced. Under this statute Edward VIII is a multiple monarch, separately King of each "country," separately acting upon the advice of its Premier. Therefore by royal command last week the age-old Coronation ceremonial will be overhauled and altered enough to make each Dominion feel that its King is being crowned...
...America is the Liberal Government of Canada's Province of Quebec, which has had an uninterrupted, 39-year run of power. Head man since 1920 has been wily, wiry Premier Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, now 69, born to an aristocratic French family, accustomed to lead Quebec's backward, French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits of work, a suave and barbed...
...departments, notably that of Agriculture, have made many a dull, amateurish film to be shown to school children. To Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected...
...wife searched the cellar for a bottle of wine, to celebrate. The cellar was empty, so they cooked sausages instead. At the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most of them sidled up, half-turned; when it came Yeats's turn he made a great effort, clambered up carefully, straight backward. "As the cheering grows much louder when I get there, I must have roused the sympathy of the audience...
...which can be traced back to antiquity. . . . For this reason Italians are able to converse in pantomime without uttering a single word. Their posture is characterized by an easy relaxation of the shoulders and a strong forward curvature of the back. At the same time the elbows are held backward...