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James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, was scheduled to go to Geneva last week to plead for the peace of the world. He did not go. Instead, he retired to a nursing home to be operated on for what his doctors called "a slight and progressive diminution of the vision of the left eye," and the precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return...
Zoology 9. Invertebrate Zoology. Monday, Wednesday and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Friday at 11 o'clock. Asst. Professor Macdonald...
...enact a general tariff. But last week four Cabinet Ministers, free traders all their lives, gagged and refused to swallow the tariff. They were wizened Viscount Snowden, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Donald MacLean and Sir Archibald Sinclair. From a solemn Cabinet at No. 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald emerged with an announcement: Cabinet members who were unable to agree with the majority were at liberty to speak and to vote against the bill in Parliament. The move saved the Cabinet, but political opponents raged...
Short, swarthy, scowling, Director Lubitsch has a Teutonic sense of humor, a juvenile propensity for jokes. When visitors appear on the set, he amuses him self by roaring at the leading lady. He gaily chose to address Jeanette MacDonald by abbreviating her last name, until she replied in kind. More Teutonic than his humor is the Lubitsch urge for order and completion. Before making a picture he spends three months preparing the script with his writers, telling them exactly what he wants. When the script ? essentially a stenographic record of a Lubitsch idea ? is finished, he seldom sees...
...Washington (TIME. Jan. 5, 1931). The N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency sent out publicity stating that Miss Doherty had conceived and executed the idea of decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace Eames Doherty, for $500.000 charging that she had invented the designs, that Mrs. Doherty had passed them off as her daughter's work...