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...first official request ever made by the King of England in connection with a news picture was issued last week from Windsor Castle, attached by picture agencies to the backs of negatives showing His Majesty posing with the heir apparent
...famed plays were revived in Manhattan on successive nights last week, soon flickered out. Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (produced by Robert Henderson & Estelle Winwood) lasted four performances, Ibsen's The Wild Duck (produced by Henry Forbes) lasted three. With the shining exception of the Mercury Theatre's Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Shakespeare has had hard sledding on Broadway this season. As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor were flops, Coriolanus a middling success in its briefly scheduled Federal Theatre run. The Merry Wives, which was written to order...
King George and Queen Elizabeth, who promptly took likable, new U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy & family into the Buckingham Palace family circle, had these new American friends down to Windsor Castle for the week end. Also present were Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain. London has taken to the Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...hearty epithet frequently on the lips of the late King George V in private- although always eschewed by the English in public-was "bloody," and this Ambassador Kennedy has now adopted at London into his pungent speech. Last week, just before going down with Mrs. Kennedy to Windsor Castle, the Ambassador called in correspondents, exploded vehemently against the presentation at Court of socialite U. S. women. Cried he: "I believe this policy is undemocratic and un-American...
...cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...