The Archive · 1928

THE CENTENARY OF THE "SPECTATOR"

Representative Attendance at a Celebration Dinner London, Oct. 31.

Representatives of polities, Inv, literature, medicine, journalism, come merce, and the Dominions, ' were a dinner at Claridge's given last night by Major John Astor in celebration of the eentenary of the "Spectator,"

The front page of the menu was reprint of the frontage of the Spectator's" first number while the back reproduced a page of the cen ten ary issue, Major Astor read a telegram from the King congratulating all concerned on the occasion, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Premier, in a speech described the "Spectator" as a national instit tion which has had the remarkable ood fortune of being conducted for a century by only four men. He said that its survival was a remarks fable tribute to the innate stability of the British people. "It has bei a bond of union among. all er) Engelish-speaking peoples," stated.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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