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Died. Archibald Marshall, 68, humorist, novelist (Peter Binney, Undergraduate; The Graftons; Exton Manor; The Claimants) ; in Cambridge, England. His 30-odd novels of quiet, peaceful English country life were compared, over his mild objections, to those of Anthony Trollope...
...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...
Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
...Texas Representative Richard M. Kleberg; and Forrest Lee Andrews. Houston attorney; in "Santa Gertrudis" on the Kine Ranch. Texas. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the Kleberg dynasty which for half a century has ruled Texas' 1,250,000-acre King Ranch of which Santa Gertrudis is the manor house. The ranch's value is estimated at $18,590,000 (TIME, Dec. 4). Present at the wedding were 2,500 guests...