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...changed his name to make it sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...
Thus brutally did Lord Snowden reverse the popular belief that for once King George did something of importance, winning over his Prime Minister when the Scotsman came to Buckingham Palace determined to resign. As a matter of fact, according to Lord Snowden, "The day after the National Government was formed he [MacDonald] came into my room in Downing Street in very high spirits. I remarked to him that he would now find himself very popular in strange quarters. He replied gleefully, rubbing his hands, 'Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss...
...Most unwelcome guests of the week to His Majesty were four delegates from Western Australia who made for Buckingham Palace carrying enormous scrolls. Their obstreperous State had decided by referendum to secede from the Australian Commonwealth and seek self-governing status under the Crown (TIME. April 17, 1933). The scrolls, crammed with the signatures of Western Australians who demand this change, will be referred by the King-Emperor to his Lords and Commons when they reconvene this week...
These lectures will be held in the lecture hall of Building D at the Harvard Observatory, the entrances to which are on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and at 60 Garden Street opposite Linnean. If the weather permits, those attending the program will be given the opportunity to make telescopic observations of celestial bodies. The planet Saturn will be one of the particular objects of study...