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...Welcomed to membership in their House George V's son-in-law who became the Earl of Harewood upon his father's death (TIME, Oct. 14). Previously known by the mere "courtesy title" of Viscount Lascelles, Princess Mary's lanky spouse is supposed to have smoldered angrily for years because His Majesty has not thought fit to create a new title for him. Last week, at the age of 47, he made his maiden speech on the Royal Veterinary College, pleaded for a larger Government appropriation, while Princess Mary beamed from the gallery...
...made Baron Irwin a peer and then sent him to India as Viceroy? None other than the late Conservative Government (1924-29) in which the Earl of Birkenhead was Secretary of State for India. Last week Conservative papers called their Viceroy a "silly dreamer," accused him of having gone pinko-Socialist to please Scot MacDonald...
...table conference in London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...England the British Home Office issued orders that if Earl Carroll, Broadway producer on trial last week for obscenities in his Vanities, should leave the U. S. for Great Britain, he must not be permitted to land. "Ridiculous!" snorted Brother Norman Carroll at rumors that Producer Carroll might flee the law and the land...
...Earl Carroll Vanities. This eighth edition of the Vanities is billed Hollywood-wise: "World's Greatest Revue-A Super-Spectacle of 68 Scenes-Meeting America's Demand For Sophisticated Entertainment." The purpose of at least two of its gaudy interludes is so sophisticated as to become practically unintelligible to most spectators. At one point the stage is filled with grotesque figures garbed as inhabitants of the "Planet X," who burst into an inexplicable ditty about "The March of Time." Even more confused is the 20-min scene "Freedom Ring," which closes Act I. Here several score of young...