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...British subjects any one of whom Adolf Hitler would prefer to the present British Ambassador at Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps. Herr von Ribbentrop did not deny that he himself was the Realm-leader's choice to succeed as German Ambassador to the Court of St. James the distinguished, old-school Dr. Leopold von Hoesch who died in April...
Second Gun was Permanent Chairman Bertrand Snell, white-haired and white-suited. With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932. He spoke under noonday heat to delegates who had spent a night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from...
...talk up" to logical, cerebral Latins and to Britons whom he humbly delights to consider superior persons. Broadcasts by Orator Hitler on foreign policy are so comparatively smooth, so well-turned and of such reasonable length as to amaze many Germans and lead to rumors that some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel...
...Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. There is another who is a director on the board of Boston's dominant financial organization, the First National Bank. A third, who is also the most enthusiastic of all Harvard's football aficionados is the managing editor of the eminently conservative and old-school Globe. Harmony and serenity on the part of church, state, and public institutions is one of the remarkable and refreshing aspects of the Boston scene...
...Merivale's Othello is somewhat less violent, a little more gentlemanly, than Mr. Huston's. For the most part he speaks his lines with precision and touches of old-school austerity, but bursts now and then into roars of epileptic passion which old-school critics deprecated as inarticulate. Desdemona is played with competent verve by Gladys Cooper, the Jane Cowl of Britain who first appeared in the U. S. last year in The Shining Hour. Kenneth MacKenna provides a jaunty lago who obviously relishes discussing his skulduggery with himself and his audience...