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...White Eagle is a musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings...
Lawyer Buckner, appointed last week by Justice Scudder, was the man who investigated New York police corruption under Mayor Gaynor in 1912-13. More lately (1925-27), as U. S. Attorney, he was chief padlocker of the biggest and wettest of U. S. cities, and prosecutor in the famed Earl Carroll bath-tub case and in the alien property conspiracy case against Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas Woodnutt Miller...
...nature, Conservative by party, is constantly swayed toward reactionary measures by the overwhelming Conservative majority in the House of Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough and rational; but a great swath is cut among League idealists by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, a weak antidote to Churchill and Birkenhead...
...triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral credit in the matter of a commission which will go to India next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain...
Died. Lady Victoria Bullock, daughter of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, onetime (1918-20) British Ambassador to France; following a hunting accident in which her skull was fractured when she attempted to ride under a low bridge; near Leicester...