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...course: First, Signor Benito Mussolini, 45, who lives most of the year away from his wife, Donna Rachele, yet dotes on their only daughter, Edda; and the Second, the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Furneaux, 56, Secretary of State for India, a devoted British husband, and a hero to his two smart daughters-Lady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela Margaret Elizabeth Smith...
Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
...noble lord," sneered the sarcastic Earl, "has condemned the present management of public houses in London on the basis of his penetrating observation. . . . I am not interested in the noble lord's personal perambulations of the metropolis. The noble lord happened to be in a neighborhood of wretched public houses, full of disorderly people. Every man chooses his promenade...
...suffused the countenance of the young Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Merrick, "Queen of London Night Club Keepers," has been sentenced to six months in jail for selling liquor after hours. Therefore the young Lord blushed and visibly perspired when the scathing Earl of Birkenhead remarked: "We hear of Peers denouncing drinking in the slums. But they seldom say a word about the evil caused by night clubs ... in connection with which the mother-in-law of two members of Your Lordship's House recently incurred the public censure of the courts" (TIME...
...other son-in-law of Mrs. Kate ("Mother") Merrick is the Earl of Kinnoull. He, shameless, did not blush...