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...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
...Knight of the Thistle is the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Claud George Bowes-Lyon, a descendant of Scottish kings far more ancient in lineage than is Britain's Royal House. The Earl, pious and as Scotch as the Thistle itself, is at pains to uphold the motto of his House: In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust...
...Earl Carroll is reported in today' issue of this paper as preparing to treat an entirely new phase of the athletic situation. If this is true, and who but a federal judge would doubt it, he is going to absurd lengths to put the idea over. Anyone who can shed new light on athletics has little need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores...
...thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept...
Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, Billie, Chee Chee, Paris...