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...reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery manufacturer who, at 68, has little to do. To Vancouver's astonishment, London's 613th Lord Mayor accepted the invitation, promised to bring with him the Lord Mayor's whole retinue, lord sheriff, macebearer, sword-bearer and city marshal. Last week Sir Percy Vincent & staff landed in Canada with an exact replica of the five-foot mace to present to Vancouver. Exploded Mayor McGeer delightedly: "Now what in Sam Hill would I do with a mace...
Whether the rubbernecks' grandstand, Director LeRoy's gratitude and even the qualities of the picture itself will cause the LeRoy version of Anthony Adverse to equal the success of the Allen version is exceedingly debatable. As hard-breathing, swashbuckling sword-&-cloak melodrama it is good but not superlative...
...Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror, Napoleon, Wellington, Kellermann, Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles of Sweden, Gates at Saratoga, Meade at Gettysburg, Joffre at the Marne- all are there for the edification and inspiration of West Pointers...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
...when the Prime Minister needed to win Britain's last General Election, he turned the trick by having Anthony Eden appear dazzlingly in Britain's public eye as the Siegfried of Diplomacy, the handsome young man who was going to save Ethiopia from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary...