Foreign News: Trumpets, Enter H. R. H.

An Englishman of robust John Bull type greeted fragile Ambassador Andrew William Mellon and other U. S. pilgrims to the opening of the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon last week, booming with a throb in his deep bull voice, "From my heart welcome, welcome home!"

"I say again, a thousand times welcome home!" boomed the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative Party leader. Stratford's U. S. guests glowed visibly with the warmth of their English welcome. Presently the fact that some of them have contributed largely to building Stratford's vigorously modernistic Theatre*...

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