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Just eight months ago King Edward VIII trudged through the coal dust of South Wales "Distressed Areas" on what the British press called his "errand of mercy" (TIME, Nov. 30). After looking at the treeless, blackened hillsides, the abandoned coal mines, the pitiful brick hovels, the haggard faces of the inhabitants, more than 45,000 of whom were unemployed and only 2,000 employed at the time, His Majesty exclaimed publicly: "Something must be done for Wales...
...play it last week stepped a great ceremonial official of the Court of St. James, the Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around...
...LAUGHTON. British actor (The Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt), has all his earnings in Hollywood assigned to his British holding company which pays him a salary of $20,000 a year. His earnings were some $190,000 in 1935 and although his British holding company paid a tax to the U. S. he had a considerable tax saving. Said Mr. Irey: "The conduct of Mr. Laughton in this instance may be perfectly legal. The case however is cited as another illustration...
...MAGIC OF MONARCHY-Kingsley Martin-Knopf ($1.25). "What was really behind the abdication" of Edward VIII; a lucid, 125-page explanation tracing the last century's British opinion about the Monarchy, by the editor of the liberal New Statesman and Nation...
...Circumstance," MarchElgar *"In the Spring," Overture Goldmark *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Hungarian Dances, No. 5 and No. 6 Brahms *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Framingham State Teachers College Glee Club (with orchestra) *"Maytime," Selection Romberg *Mosquito Dance White *Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...