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Potent, the Earl of Birkenhead was obliged to cut short his holiday and hasten back to England because of the ugly Chinese crisis...
Burly of stature but impeccably sleek, the Earl of Birkenhead vacationed last week at Funchal, balmy and (in winter) fashionable port-city of Madeira. Careless of his dignity as Secretary of State for India and a onetime (1919-22) Lord Chancellor, the Earl rode about by day in a canopied sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango...
...wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal...
Next day the warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought...
...commerce of the street for the benefit of the Hearst International Reel Corp. . . . it is expected that the syndicate . . . will pay the fine." The fine was $5,000, imposed on Harold Elliston, onetime managing editor of the Baltimore Neivs who also faced a day in jail. Managing Editor Earl C. Deland of the Baltimore American was given a day's jailing; also City Editor Harry Clark of the News, and Photographers Sturm and Klemm...