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...MARCHESA LOIS ORIGO, who is a young Englishwoman, has already proved her literary skill with a little study of Leopardi which appeared last year. In this book she undertakes the study of one episode in the life of another Romantic poet, Byron, whom contemporaries regarded as the chief of all. To this day he enjoys a greater reputation on the Continent than even Wordsworth, as Senor de Madariaga was once gracious enough to remind...
DARBY AND JOAN - Maurice Baring - Knopf ($2). Superficially serene tale of an aristocratic Englishwoman, by the aristocratically serene English novelist...
...their excitement upon foolish exaggeration and lots of low comedy. For almost three acts, I Want a Policeman is motivated by the fact that every time somebody tries to tell somebody else how rich Mr. Davidson died, nobody will listen. Meanwhile, a boob policeman (Harold Moffet), a silly Englishwoman (Estelle Winwood) and an eccentric youngster (Clinton Sundberg) try for laughs...
...elegant haberdashery and expensive shipboard accommodations Negro Julian explained by saying that an Englishwoman has given...
...mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being run off as the regular edition, a hoax on Brown which evoked even more mirth. An Englishwoman, the Great Khan's wife has challenged Iranian public opinion by dismissing Iranian servants of the Iranian Legation in Washington, hiring French and British...