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Rector of Stiffkey. After three months of deliberation the Worshipful Frederick Keppel North, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, and an ecclesiastical court last week returned a verdict in the case of Rev. Harold Francis Davidson, rector of Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewkey"), accused "of permitting 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed, of immoral conduct with Rose Ellis, 30, over a period of ten years, of embracing Betty Beach, actress, while she was clad only in her nightie," etc., etc. (TIME, April 11). Mr. Davidson explained he had been engaged in the commendable occupation of saving lost souls in London's streets. His son & daughter heard Chancellor North call his defense a tissue of lies. "He told us," observed the Chancellor, "that one night while walking in Leicester Square he picked up a young prostitute, Rose Ellis, and gave her food, money and lodgings. I pause for a moment to say there is no blame attached to him for that. . . . But from that night began an association that lasted more than eleven years." Brokenly convicted. Rector Davidson stumbled from the ecclesiastical court, went in search of a vaudeville engagement. Said his wife, still loyal: "I am preparing to get a job as a cook or housekeeper."
—Last week hungry-looking Nancy Cunard, famed and open Negrophile, left New York where she had been living in Harlem, for Havana. Reporters were kept out of her stateroom by big, black Anselm Colebrooke, who sailed on the same ship in a cabin engaged for him by Miss Cunard, daughter of Lady Cunard. In Weymouth, Mass., Blackamoor Colebrooke was wanted by the police in connection with a motorcar theft, also wanted by his white wife and six offspring.