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...lakes and the immobile vastness of its mountains. There the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...charge of scenic effects and costume designing. Mr. Jorgulesco has been studying in Germany under Sievert and Reinbardt. Diction, phonetics and special training in Shakespeare will be in the care of Misses Lenore Chippendale and Agnes Elliott Scott. Miss Lilla Wyman will give instruction in ballet and pantomime, and Eric Kalphurst in sight-reading and make-up. Mr. Will Ghere is to be dean of the play-producing department...
...present opus Mr. Griffith fools around with a European kingdom, chases an American girl all over Europe, runs into a nasty revolution. Most of these things have been done before?most recently by Eric von Stroheim's The Merry Widow...
...cause of labor, the railroad men rouse the opposition of the local medical profession by extending their food boycott even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt to run the blockade. Dr. Eric Miller is killed; and his friend, Dr. John Wrigley, overcome by the disaster, enlists the other doctors in a counter strike...