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Testimonial. In Islington. Australia, grateful Frances Devereux refused to prosecute James Ford for bashing her in the head with an ax, explained to reporters that the blow had cured her insomnia and improved her appetite...
Only three times in 20 years has mild-mannered Sampson Cluse, Labor M.P. for South Islington, emerged from Parliament's back-bench obscurity and made a speech. His first was the maiden speech which tradition demands of all M.P.s. His second was when he protested against the means test for those on the dole. Last week Cluse spoke again...
...Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...
...Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix to pose as her husband. Everything works smoothly until suspicion necessitates the two young people to occupy the same room overnight. The sophisticated musical comedy patron will not become too hopeful over such a situation. As is proper...