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Because the King of England may not enter the House of Commons, it was the first budget speech that Edward VIII has missed in years. Every visitors' gallery was jammed with Britain's swankest. With one eye cocked at the clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer began to talk. One generality followed another. "Perhaps I may liken this budget," said he, "to the uncertain glory of an April day." (Haw! Haw! in the galleries...
...Windsor Castle Edward VIII last week inspected the Coldstream Guards. Visiting the barracks he found a Sergeant Jenkins, lately transferred from the Welsh Guards. Sergeant Jenkins was the proud possessor of a photograph of the finish of a regimental foot race which a drummer-boy named Davis was winning, with Edward of Wales running second and Sergeant Jenkins a close third...
...promised to write the story of their adventure, the profits to go, first, for Scadding's care, second, to the Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...
Since Bright Eyes Shirley Temple has grown full of honors. Her position as box-office champion last year was determined by Motion Picture Herald's poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each...
Since The Private Life of Henry VIII put new capital and new life into the British cinema industry, U. S. producers have been debating whether the brains behind the shabby desk in Grosvenor Street were really capable of supplying them with serious competition for the world cinema markets. Last week they knew the answer. Things to Come may or may not entrance U. S. cinemaddicts but it is likely to make bigwigs in Hollywood scratch their heads about a future much more immediate than...