MOTHER’S COLLAPSE
AT NEWS OF HER-SON’S DEATH
LATE VISCOUNT KNEBWORTH
LONDON, May 1
- News of the death of Viscount. Knebworth in an air crash caused a painful "shock.
The curtain had just risen on the opening performance, “Der Rosenkavalier” of the Covent Garden opera season. which wa s attended by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Countess of Lytton, when Lord Lytton arrived in a closed car and asked to see his wife.
He waited, white-faced, until she arrived, wearing lovely pearls and exquisitely dressed in amber satin, and then whispered .the news of her son’s death,. The Countess screamed, “He is not dead?” and coll-psed, weeping, in the arms of her husband, who carried her to hi,s car.
■ Viscount Knebworth had been M.P. ifCon.) for the Hitchin Division of Hertford since 1931, and wag 29 years of age! His father, the Earl of "Lytton, was chairman of the League of Nations Committee “which reported on the Manchurian crisis last year. In,--‘1931 Viscount Kmebworth was gazetted a pilot officer in th e County of (London (Bombing Squadron. He wrote on ‘boxing and ski-ing for the Lonsdale Library.
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