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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 13. 1929. 13 Americans who deride us for our way of pronouncing Cirencester' and the liquid utterance of his kind. His cellar Is complete from cocktail to brandy; indeed his very voice is like a bad liqueur. TDramatls 3Vt Random.

Rapitenl Flint! Bwana Trelonl." "Piuu," and "OaBeni'J Jim Hawkins. Is. lust lim but Long HENRY ARTHUR JONES. John Silver is transmuted to at once sweet, sticky, and full of bodeful fire. "ptrsoiufe.

EXPLAINING THE Leominster and Daventry," by deriding the way in which they pronounce Connecticut," Arkansas," and Illinois." An English novelist caused extraordinary hilarity during his visit to America by pronouncing "Illinois" as if it were a French word. Professor urges Johnson Is not entirely original in his demand for "bigger and Sadie Merlvale had married Yuan Sing SOME REMINISCENCES. in poverty and was repenting In Sloane-square dresses amid the owls, ayahs, and neuer swear-words. More than one illustrious author has already tried bis hand. Was it nol Barrie's Pirate who swore By- Dion or ths Wax.

-Arts, "Therese Eaquln (mati- TO-DAY. Ana aaresay these unes can be maoe out without a dictionary; Wata kumi na. Yo-ho-ho-ho 1 Juu va kasha la mfii. Yc-hc-Uo-ho 1 Na cnupa ya. mvtnyo.

Yp-Ho-hcehol Ulevi na ohetani axnewaua engine. Yo-ho-hol Na chupa ya mvinyo. Yo-ho-ho-ho I A similar translation is -also Issued (Longmans are the publishers) of a voluma more closely associated with. ihe Haggard's King Solomon's Mines." rurjDer-irees. one orougm, ner sister, Charlotte, to live with her, since the Singapore sahibs would have no more to do carbonate or faoaa Mr.

Peggotty had a eel. d'Arois" (By H. M. Walbrook.) That brave man, Henry Arthur Jones, mysterious imprecation, I'll be Gormed. which puzzled the young Copperfield.

George Meredith, in one of his stage efforts, wim gins tnus tolerant 01 me yeuow La Mtrquiso (Venturers. Savoy, Two Women Club Stags Society). streak. She also took consolation with a (Lyceum was sometimes called a pioneer. He was introduced the laoyltlte cribs "Carnation white rubber-planter and managed to get many things, but he was not that.

Indeed, caught oy uie savage, snem sing, wno MONDAY. Old Vic, Macbeth." the theatre is not the place for pioneers. take you and Begonia, I win." And what about Shakespeare, with Mrs. Page's What the dickens and Pistol's magnl-flcen: Not for Cadwallader and all his goats Vaudeville, He Walked In Her Bleep." Thereae Eaquin." As Shakespeare has told us, its function is 150 Hux DEATHS- Happened to oe netter servea oy ius nouse-hold pels than even Whlttington himself. Neglectful of the advice now being song-fully offered In all well-conducted pantomimes, Don't do thaht to the poor puss-caht," he smeared poison on pussy's claws and sent her out to scratch the planter TUESDAY.

Opening of British hum that of a mirror; and, obviously, the more faithfully a dramatist or an actor reflects (BY ST. JOHN ERVINE.) The headlines in American newspapers have long been celebrated, and stories are told here of some very odd ones. Lord AUenby's visit revived recollection of one, published in a Chicago paper, which was printed in The Observer soon after I returned to London from my previous trip to America, When the news of AUenby's victorious advance in Palestine was received, a BUb-editor printed the paragraphs under the following captions: ALLENBY ADVANCE ON JERUSALEM. Turks EvtcniTi Christ' Hoki Town. Accuracy is not a prominent characteristic of these headlines, as the It was while we were turning these variations of the speech over on our tongues that the headlines were ex- Elalned.

In the popular newspapers, ought by working people, headlines are sometimes an inch or an inch and a half in length. The tabloids newspapers in which everything is expressed very briefly and simply use pictures and large type lavishly. They are published Tor readers whose English is slight These people practically have to spell out their news, and the big headlines are to make their reading and their spelling easy for thefn. Some of them do not get beyond the headlines, so these are packed with as much information ss nosflfhle in teleOTanhic form. WBDNEBDAY.

Arts, Tb SeaguLV life and character, the less he 'Is a pioneer. Henry Arthur Jones gave us a number of FEIDAY-Old Vic, -Pan and ths Young which tne intelligent animal obediently tine comedies, and helped to give us per- Shepherd (matinee). did. Unfaithful wives have to be punished Or one might tall back on the monarchs, most of whom have had good taste In the orotund. Queen Elizabeth hersell was an adept In the old theological style.

The Conqueror swore by the splendour of God." but the Merry Monarch seems to have made most play with Odd's fish." naps uie oesi melodrama in tne language. as well as amorous invaders. Sadie was Exceedingly -violent "'galea hv been sweeping the Sea oi Japan for lbe last two days and a death roll of 160 is already reported- The atafi attribute the destruction to the use of air-guns or similar weapons placed in young people's stockings at Ghristcatt. Evening Papei. Yes; they would ba air-guns; but these strenuous young folk should be kept under supervision.

There is a certain suggestion of futility about the case of Anton Lesiczynskt. Who Mr. Charles B. Cochran's Diana were At the height of his powers he was one of the ablest dramatic craftsmen in Europe, and his beat work is as sure of survival in like to go to a private gaol In Singapore, while Sing transferred his affections to Charlotte. Bui the deceased planter had a brother who also loved Charlotte, and given some time ago In The Observes, but there is now some more news about the uie tugnsn tneaire ss mat or any of his Sing, deciding far no conceivable reason that two men cannot live and love the 1329 Hevue which, after three weeks In Manchester, will be seen at the Pavilion some time at the end of March.

As already uuiiiempuraries. a man or wnom that can be aid surely stands In need of no lames I. wag- a consistent blasphemer. You mistake, sir," said Lard Herbert of Cherbury to the Prince de Conde, who spoke to him of the royal failing; it is all owing to his goodness of heart. He is too kind to punish offenders himself, so he commits the chastisement of them to God." second of the two lust cited Droves.

An other tribute. His epitaph is sufficiently same woman, gallantly poured champagne stated, trie book Is by Mr. John Hastings fine. important New York daily referred to Sir urner. and the music and lyrics by Mr.

into two glasses, one 01 wiucn was poisoned, and gave the Englishman first assisiea Detore ine war in masing uniforms tor the Kaiser. He now states matr It was his good fortune to fall, earlv In The result is that the headlines become more difficult to follow than the paragraphs they are supposed to explain, but, worse than that, the reader becomes accustomed a graceless English, and presently uses it as if it were the only English. Here is a headline which is hiB career, under the spell of that fastidi choice of chalice in this imbecile gamble. providence was uutuuuy patriotic, tne Briton lived to enjoy his love and Sing Cole Porter. Among the artists who have been engaged for parts are Miss Jessie Matthews.

Mr. Sonnie Hale, Miss Laurie Devine. Mr. Fred Groves, Mr. Douglas Byng, Mr.

Lance Lister, and Mr. 'William Cavanagh all of whom were in the oast on the stiff canvas lining which -he-keyed into them he always wrote either the flrat words of the Polish National Anthem is not yet oi Qod free Poland." died impassively, but Impressively, as the ous ngure. aunew Arnold, ana to the end of his life he held that great name in honour. On the first night of The Silver King," Matthew Arnold was present, and In a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette." three weeks after, he wrole of the olav. venom began to operate.

He oeuevea strongly in re-lncarnatlon and tie obviously ended with a great future. A natrintlr. iresture: but wouldn't have 1 his Year of Grace. Miss Tilly Loscn been more to the purpose If he bad left, a needle In themT perfectly clear: Mr. Etna tm EatrraNQ; Iti Hnricn Town.

One scarcely needs to read any more than that. But close to that one I found another, which was less clear: will be joined by another Viennese dancer, and other dancers tn the revue will be It is not Shakespeare, it is melodrama: Is It unfair to criticise motive and Dlausl- Louis Berkoff and his sisters, June Roper but the diction and sentiments ere natural, they have sobriety and propriety, they are A new light on the- Beast, (theological. and Jack Kinney, Chester Fredericks and Margie Finley and Alanova, an English girl. literature, aucn a compliment rrom such bllity when the authors make no bones about It and confess themselves to be manufacturers of melodrama! Surely the The cruest for the new swear-word will not be easy for there Is no moral basis to go on. All the greater oaths have a theological origin, and their decline (and their consequent unsa; isfactorl-ness to' modern ears) is Inevitable in an age Of scepticism or indifference.

They were once tremendous missiles, and the devoting of an adversary to damnation- when both parties believed in damnation was felt to be a greater relief to the sub-Chrlstlan emotions than is possible when "damn is practically synonymous with drat." The best way to find good swear-words would be to restore the old Ideas; but perhaps it would be hardly worth while in this more fastidious age. We must remember that a high authority of the realm once described swearing as a ungentlemanly habit." not zoological), from the "-Bapsl, Commoner" (Arkansas): a man could not fall to leave a lasting wno was formerly in tne Russian Daiiei impress on a spirit so sensitive ana idealis Mr. George Metaxa, the Rumanian tenor. tic, as well as so courageous, as that of the Miss Pony Ward; and a sister or Raquel young piaywrignt. iwo years later, wnen Metier wilt also appear.

Costumes ana probabilities ought to be considered a little; the white conspirators against Sing in this case spin their plots with the maxi-mum of publicity. Le' those who can believe in Sing's gamble with the poisoned glasses And felicity in their faith. When the police officer has come to arrest All Baptist commentators that I know of agree that Romanism la the beast its mark would be the ONE THING that dU- i Hnguisbes it from all other organisations. That one thing Is the Latin langiMe-No matter what country they are in the UWIN language is used in their services. ins bainis ana dinners was produced, Arnold wrote to him.

You have remark decorations will be designed by Mr. William Nicholson. Mr. Norman Wilkinson, ably the art so valuable in drama of ex Mr. Oliver Messell.

and Miss Meraud citing Interest and sustaining it Guinness, and among the twenty-four scenes in the revue we are promised at the Sing for murder he announces the fact and coming rrom such a man, full or valuable Jones, minor, had long suspected some encouragement. A tremendous worker. thing of that sort. one end oi the scale a glimpse ol me Peloponnesian War and at the other a mar- Henry Arthur Jones was destined to have hts failures as well as ids successes: but I lage ire laaj. A butcher's shop in built in do not think he ever consciously lost sight In April Mr.

Cochran will present at a Cor Facing Qtnz Dees Bt Own Hiiro, which, being interpreted, means that a policeman who was questioned on some point concerning which his conscience was uneasy committed suicide. Chicago appears to be the city where headlines are fiercest and most comical, and Chicago has an amazing diversity of peoples in large numbers in it. We need not feel astonishment when we hear persons prophesying that the English influence in America will soon vanish when we realise that not only ia this population beginning to spell our language differently from us, but thai It is pronouncing it differently and using parts of it with meanings different from those which we attach to them. I utterly disgraced myself during my first visit by saying of a lady to whom I wished to be complimentary, that she was homely." My meaning was that she put people at their ease and made them feel at home, but in America homely means plain, if not actually ugly. or tne laeai wnicn Maunew Arnold held out to him when he was on the threshold 1307.

is now a beauty parlour." 'way of set-off to Pevensey, where a beauty spot was in danger of becoming a slaughter heatre not yet fixed the New York Theatre A proper pride Is all very well, but At the conference of the Union of University Liberal Societies at Glasgow Mr. L. J. R. Naylor emphasised the importance of maintaining intact Scottish national traditions, such ss her fame for the strength of her whisky, and the way in which she had murdered her kings.

Guild production of Porgy," and about the same lime Miss Helen Haye. the well- house. of his career. HIS THREE BEST PLATS. then tactfully disappears In order that Sing may have the room cleared of while deviU for a good yellow death-scene.

The most that can be said for this piece is thai it Is a sumptuous spectacle, with Mr. Lang in the middle of it. If there had been a competition for best-dressed bungalows In the furthest East, Sing would have won the offered sports saloon or the month at Monte Carlo every time. Mr. Matheson Lang's acting is.

as ever, a large and capable affair; he can make lurid villainy glitter beneath a drab. Immobile mask; his dominance is absolute. All restlessness vanishes when he takes the stage; these are catarrhal times, but his masterful control of an audience silences coughs in a way that should make the houses of Veno and Owbridire rase lealouslv together. nown American actress, is to appear in ondon under his management in To the philosopher, the prospect of the Opinions naturally vary as to which were Some time later he will stage ms oesi piays. ir one is to Juage by trie The Duncan and the drunken tradition Mr.

Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie," General Election, with its gramophones. Is rather appalling: Time was when the orator spoke to tuswdlesce, and that was an end of It. But whpn tr. Austen Chamberlain lately, both in the headline and in the newB, as British Premier," and in another well-known newspaper I saw a headline in which King George was described as Queen Victoria's son. I have hitherto regarded the American headline as a Bnappy and clear guide to the news which follows it, bnt either I have been wrong In so regarding it or the headlines nave become prolix and obscure since I was la3t in America.

They are now written in a congested kind of telegraphese which makes them nearly incomprehensible. I sornetines see a headline in which can understand each word separately, but cannot understand all the words collectively. Americans tell me that they, too, have to read a headline several times before they can grasp its meaning. Here is one which caused me to pause for a second or two: BaWUKom, Hs 6ns Btit to Githxb Vt His Gems. The sentenced person was allowed a stay of execution of sentence for Ave days to enable him to collect his jewels and put them in safe custody.

All his property appeared to be in jewels scattered about various safe deposits in New York. That, however, is a comparatively easy one, and not so difficult as another in the same paper Quria Bootlegging. Held in 8uootdco, which means that a reformed bootlegger was held or arrested by the police for being a gunman concerned in a shooting affray. An American would not have any or much difficulty with these samples, but I have seen some which even journalists had to read several times before the meaning of them was clear. This one, from the New York Evening Post," is not easily understood Km Wants Widow, Goirr, Ciuxd Dud.

It means that the relatives of a widow who is missing wish to presume her death for legal purposes. A genius invites rhymed headlines for the Evening World." Here are two of them: honxbt to goodnxss, without ant bttnk, Chicago Products an Odoslxsb Eiuxx. Fishes that Walk. Birds thai Talk. Piebald Rats at Pet Show Stalk.

The second runs: Wxvts Swt? Mis, Men Swap Wrvra, Niysb So Hapi-t in All Thus Lives. Kins Childre Thrown In To Boor, Ajjd Tket'ei All Happt, Too. excitement caused in ine audience, I suppose The Middleman would ccrme first nd he told me recently that he may Invite Mr. Rouben Mamoulian, who produced visits Bristol he will be the nrst Porcy and Wlnns Over Europe In I have certainly seldom known a curtain to descend amid such a roar of applause as that which followed the second act of this New York, to produce It for him speaker to be heard in eight dinerehtjalls in eight different towns at" the play at the Shaftesbury. Wilh the book before me to-day.

however. I fancv that the A controversy Is already beginning as to whether Mr. Baldwin will celebrate hts twenty-first birthday as M.P. on February 28 or March 1 (Instead of February 29). But surely the advantage of doing anything on Leap Year Day is that you do not have to trouble about anniversaries: which begin by being pleasant, go on to be tiresome, and end by -being dolorous 7 same time." And presMy there wflj be more than eight.

TbereTieed no end At the end of the run of No Other thrilling voice and aspect of E. S. Willard Tiger," Sir Gerald du Maurier will present at the St. James's Theatre a comedy en- in tne pan or tne potter, Cyrus BienKarn. was almost as responsible for the excite Miss Mar arte Mars has mainly to shudder and shriek as the wife who plays Sing false, and she makes the most of her agitated evening.

Miss Frances Doble. as her sister, adds decoration even to a best- itled Chance of Heart, written bv Miss lo tne multiplication, a man may-iiBya as many voices as Briareus had handitaild the only consolation will be that-even a politician will only be able to speak with one voice at one time. ment as the work of the author. His short Audrey Carten and her sister. Miss Wav- The professors are busy in their attempt to save the speech from being de-Englished, but 1 sometimes doubt if they will succeed.

An American The Eatanswlll touch utiey Carten. The long cast will include play. Chatterton," also had a thunderous reception; but here, again, the irresistible voice of an actor, Wilson Barrett, has to dressed bungalow. She takes her part. 1 fancy, too seriously and tries to be both 'We are pretty Ther (the Liberals) announce alio tbat eonfldent.

thana-h. tnena told me lately that America is Miss Nora swinDurne (now in uut uoes Miss Cathleen Nesbitt, Mr. Frank Vosper, and Mr. Nigel Bruce. tbev will distribute said Mr.

Ferker. slnk- subtle and sincere. Melodrama demands a firmer, simpler style of acting than the be remembered. My own impression Is that Henry Arthur Jones's three finest plays were The Case of Rebellious But what is going to be the eflect Upon human personality of this 7 terrific anirrandtsementl. Will the sneaker rise to a conquered nation.

He meant that the Latins and the Jews have swarmed into ooftlbB and mtrrors to ine bla voice a(mnt the women membera to a whisper. We of their axrttencee. naa ft little tea-partr Bootnnan.1" here last niabt Ave- Miss Gladys Cooper's next appearance the occasion; or will man, not for iba-first time, simply be encumbered and over- Susan. "The Liars," and Mrs. Dane's Defence." Thev were produced between 1891 and 1900, arid thev had the advantage uutieriug intensity wmcn sne Drings to 11.

Mr. Bramwell Fletcher and Mr. Austin Trevor are efficient delegates of the White Man's Union and Mr. Donald Wolflt, as a Malay, is dentally sinister. Ivob Bnown.

will be in The Sacred Flame," the play by Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, which was the country and overwhelmed the Anglo-Saxons, whom he calls the Americans." He was very pessimistic about the future of his country, and foresaw a day when all authority would and-rorty women, -my dear air. and fare every one of 'em a green paraaol when -te of being consummately acted by Charles he subject or Mr. St.

Jonn t-rvine article from Now York a week or two ago. It will wynnnam. aurea tiisnop, Mary Moore, and Lena Ashwell. The first two of these went away." ncK-wtek Papers." be seen at The Playhouse, al. hough prob works were little more than storms In tea ably not for some little time yet, as Miss be in the hands of the invaders, none of whom would be willing to fight for America if it were attacked by an Court.

THE cups, but managed with an art, observa R. L. would no doubt have had the Copper is confined lo the house owing to wneunea ny ins own Will any hint ot the llvlhg spirit get through these regiments of valves and mlcrophohesT Orare far an age of Robot rhetoric, load, vauhttng, and reaching to the ends of the: signifying nothing? It ms' -be tnat, mto is a certain inverse ratio in efflcacjf-pf language. A word between be potent and precious: a word shared aioohc myriads well, we have yet to' leant; Wtiat It is worth. OBSBTiTOaU illness.

ETERNAL FLAME." By Watson Mill. tion, and numour ol the finest and most delicate: while the great scene In the third. enemy. He asserted that the colour right word to say If he had found his name ot a book-cover under the title, Klsiwa Chenye Hazina," which Is not a Sarnoan problem was being solved by the inter Miss May Wong, the Chinese actress, will marriage of whites and blacks, which In which the wretched Felicia Hindmarsh gradually withered under the long ami deadly cross-examination of Sir Daniel Carteret and fell at last like water to the dialect, but Swahili, the tongue of Tan nanvika. The book Is Treasure Island." My difficulty is to discuss this play with nlay the leading part in The Circle of Chalk." which Mr.

Basil Dean will pro tie declared, was a great deal com moner than most people supposed, and and one can recognise (not always without out seeming lo be cruel or loo kind. For, he believed that in time there would be aimcuuyj, some oi uie namee. mere us duce about the middle of March. She Is al present In Berlin acting for the films, and the engagement was fixed over the Door, Is Just as thrilling to read to-day as it was to watch when Wyndham and Miss Ashwell acted It so suoerblv twentv-ninn though manifestly sincere. It was more than a little preposterous.

A son of philo predominant In America a nervously I intelligent population, easily un sophical tract in the Peacockian style, but years ago. In these three works the author is sun. I mink, brilliantly alive. stabilised, quick to become excited and hysterical, and without any staving elephone. Mr.

Dean ana Mr. AUDrey Hammond, who Is designing the scenery and costumes, are going to Germany to discuss the play with her, as she will not be without thai master's art or wli or Irony ii debated such tricky themes as He HIS COURAGE. lucarnaiiun, Uie Origin of Species, and power. A well-organised and well-disciplined people, even if they were free to come lo tnglana ior ancaner mouui He loved controversy, particularly when or so. numencallv much inferior to the Ameri Mr.

siuw or Mr. wells said or wrote some thing that shocked one or olher of hi the End of Man. The symposium began uver the port at a country house, was enlivened by excursions into applied criminology, and ended by moonlight in WesUninsier Abbey; Uie speakers ranging from the tea-cosy Dean of Brassingham cans, would, he mournfully announced, over-run America and defeat it quickly The Lad will shortly be withdrawn pieties. For example, he look some foolish words of Mr. Shaw on Shakespeare nuite from the Shaftesbury, and Mr.

Frederick Jackson's comedy, Her Past," will (who was a dear), to the shade of Oliver seriously, and wrote a furious pamphlet called Mr. Mayor of Shakespeare's Town," In which he rather allowed his and with ease. He seemed to me to make little or no allowance for the great masses of men and women, the majority of them of Anglo-Saxon or, nt All events, Nordic origin, who live in the corn belt. The American farmer, a very Cromwell who wasn't). replace it on the sard, in mis piay, wnicn has been on tour for some weeks, Mdlle.

Delvsiu will be seen in her first straight part, and others in the cast include Miss patriotism to run away with his humour. Beginning in tKije Wim TO-MORROW THE Mure detailed description of the plot might hardly help; Indeed, for me to But when as we all nope nis daughte attempt it would be to wed disaster. Yet Violet vanDrugn, ivir. Morton oeueii, rai Jessie Bateman. and Mr.

Paul Cavanagh. writes his biography, she will have good things to tell us on that side of her father's merely to dismiss the thesis as untenable, the argument as a series of unsupported lire as on others. Ana surely not least on his courage. For years before his last call From to-morrow nlzht the part of Jane premises, and the play Itself as mawkish melodrama, would be ungracljus to the came he had been a great sufferer, yet his dignity and his cheerfulness never seemed Moonlight at the Klngsway will be taken over by Miss Marie Ney. She was originally cast for this character, but owing to A group of my friends here were discussing the English language in America, and the subject of headlines was brought into the discussion.

I remarked that much of the English which I read in American books, magazines, tind newspapers seemed to me to be translation or to have been written by people to whom Unglish was not native, not part of their inherited tradition. There is no tang in it. Some of the words that are now accepted as part the established speech seem to me to have been invented by people who had difficulty in expressing themselves in our tongue. All foreigners who are inexpert in a language invent words to help them out of their troubles, and since so many foreigners live in America the language has steadily become corrupted by what I call Wop words. I remember" that I used to see outside Borne restaurants here the expression Eats or Good Eats," which is an excellent example of the sort of invention to which I am referring.

One can imagine a Polish Jew struggling to express himself in English on the subject uf a restaurant or eating-house, and linally ejaculating Eats." The Tommies in the war used a language which was a mixlure nf English and French and gesticulation, but it helped them to hold some kind of communica to tan. in tne January or ltns: ne was a guest of honour at the Authors' Club, and made a witty and brave speech, contain' Ins not the smallest hint of the trouble he tne continuea run oi iuc won unable to take it up. Miss Ney. it will be remembered, was the charming Kate Hard-castle In Sir Nigel Mayfalr's production of was even then enduring, and to the end his interest In things present was quite as keen as in those of his glittering temps She Stoops lo conquer. harassed and neglected person, who seems to find the 70b of making a living no easier than his brother in England finds it, has a toughness that is Iikclv, I Imatrine, to withstand the nervous proddings of the urban Jew.

If he could ease his financial troubles a little and acquire a better education, he might deliver my friend from his dreadful What America very badly needs is a better general syslem of education. The number of illiterates in these United States is astounding. And the language is Bteadily heing dragged down to the level of their illiteracy. Because the uninformed and the crude enormously predominate in America, and because they have no real unity, such as a common origin would give them, all (he standards are fixed bv the least cultivated members of the rommunity: and the educated man must actors who so heroically manned the dialectical and other guns. 1 tie conversational trigger, so lo speak, though Inde-fatigably cocked, invariably missed lire; as who should persistently ask, Have you a pen and who no less regularly reply, No.

but the gardener's win is ingl The cumulative effect was rather like that of a hot-air bath. In which to move, let alone to catch one's neighbour's eye. was to scream. Yet interest, even admiration, was constantly evoked by the actors' devotion to duty. The sheer feal of memorising and delivering dialogue that parsed like actual speech, but seemed lo be informed neither by rhyme nor reason, was one of thosa professional miracles that have the layman LORD HALDANE A Frank, Self-Portrait jadls.

I Deueve tne last tasK ne was en gaged on was a book of memoirs of Henry The first nieht of Byron at the Lyric Irving, wnom ne ranged as not only in Theatre has now been definitely fixed up for the 2Snd. the date of the poet's birthday. greatest of English actors, out as a very remarkable as well as lovable man. If he In the opening scene uyron is seen Doxing with Gentleman Jackson and it Is not until the second scene at Lady Heathcole's ball Ipft it unfinished I hope one day we may allowed to see the fragment. He talked that Lady Byron appears.

For the rest of on Irving so delightfully that anything he has written concerning him must have the Dlav we are to see the gradual collapse value. of the marriage, and, finally, Byron death at Missolonghl. beat. Mr. Fisher White, indeed, spoke hjs lines with such an air of cogitative autho accept these standards or withdraw ears 11 is strange that there should be two into seclusion and become frustrate or.

JUST before his death Lord Haldane had completed his own account of hitfi-sclfj and of his long and eventful career. This story will arouse the widest public interest. It is written in a candid, analytical style and with a keen sense of humour. productions oi rareiy perionneu as too many Americans are doing, fly Dlav. Therese Raquln this week.

The trom me counirv wnen ne has made first In French will be presented by Mr. J. T. Grein al the Arts Theatre this after enoutrh money to enable him to live elsewhere. rity, so arresting a tone of conviction, that hope of edification sprang eternal in one's breast.

Let me, therefore, pay tribute to him and his colleagues; to Mr. Fred O'Donovan. whose philosophical burglar was so grim, to Miss Marie Datnton, who invested the burglar's wile with so acceptable a semblance of character; and to Mr. Harry Morton, whose ungloomy Dean I suspected of (but would have forgiven) most canonical sins from simony upwards. A little learning can be even more dangerous in a dramatist than a lot of elo-auence: but when they combine.

noon, and the other at Kew to-morrow night. The latter is in the translation by Mr. A. Texeira Mattos; Mr. Frank Birch is Excerpte from Che baen" or Sanuars it, 1820.

THE WEEK'S THEATRES. the producer and in the cast are Mr. Russell Thorndike. Miss Jane Wood. Miss Nancy Earlv next session Mr.

Peel is to brtna Price. Mr. H. R. Hlgnett, Mr.

Vincent stern- Bill into Parliament founded on the evidence taken before the Police Committee, which royd. Miss Elizabeth price, and Mr. Anthony Ireland. Duke of York's. ia expected will effect material improvement in the present polioe system of the metropolis H.

"THE CHINESE BUNGALOW." tion with tire French people, hen the ruacler realises what a medlev of races the American nation is he will not have any difficulty in understanding how the English of this continent is being twisted away from the English of Great liritain and Ireland. At the dinnerparty where this discussion was held there were two Englishwomen, one Canadian man, one American man, one Russian woman, one Viennese woman, one Ulsterman. The ease with which we spoke English varied considerably, and I heard words turned In ways that were unusual to me. Our English and the English of America are steadily separating, although erudite persons, alarmed at the corruption of the Bpeech in the United States, are attempting to restore its purity. I have heard the following words pronounced so that I had difficulty in knowing what they were: Opponent, financier, enquiry, dahlia; unci these pronunciations were made, n.it by persons of European Continental urjgin, hut by native-born Americans, nianv of them of English origin.

and i neignDournooo. If Mr. Philip Rldgeway succeeds In und By Marion Osmond and Jams Comet. ine- a theatre for the transfer of "The Seagull from the Arts he tells me that it Palladium. LILLIAN LEITZEL.

will be the first of a series of revivals of Nottm Wn Ottm Tb Arh The editor of the Lancet," in noticing the late murders at Edinburgh, says: We blie ourselves within a recent period seen bodies brought into dissecting rooms in this metro Chekhov's plays. There is also a prospect. Wolflt. AOdUl Lord Haldane describes his career- at the Bar and in politics his fitmous period of gdrriinistration at the War and the reasons which ultimately kd him-to throw in his lot with the Labour Parry. The account of the intellectual and religious principles on which this practical idealist moulded his life will be to many the subject of greatest interest; others will be most attracted by the revelation of Lord Haldaneasanianofrrianyanddwerseniehds ranging from philosophers to racing men.

I understand, that Fashion will be Charlotte Merlvalft Doble. Harold Bram-well Fletcher. moved from the Gate to another theatre. As New York's circus fever not contracted until the spring, when our attack leaves off. the stars of the World's polis exhibiting none of the appearances usually found in the bodies of persons who had died from diseaBe, but with all the indications presented by the bodies of men who had mnn siarjori Mam.

RicharH Martinefi Auntin Trevor. Tnan Sinn Matheon Captain Harler Walter Menpes. Macbeth begins a three-weeks' run at died within a few hours, and a state of the Old Vic to-morrow and other Greatest Show and Greatest Snows on Earth are in London now. Con Colleano can be seen at Olympla, and May Wirth perfect health. One nead in particular sublects are now frequently sold piecemeal- Shakespearian piays to ne perrormea tnis season are The Merry Wives," Henry win be seen at tne palladium this week.

and "Hamlet. on rrldfly afftr- The third Is Lillian Leiusel, probably the noon next the Old Vie students will be attracted our attention and that ol other Gentlemen present. It was the head of a erectly fresh subject, not the slightest indication of disease could be traced; it was nnnrantlv the head of a man who had lived most expert performer on the ropes and seen in a revival of Mr. Maurice Hewlett's rings the world has known, who was Dastoral. Pan and the Young Shepherd, at the Palladium last week.

The oro A well-known political correspondent which is being produced by Mr. Percy In ticaitn auu visuut a ugun. cramme calls her a trapeze artiste," but Walsh. could not learn trom wnenco it was tjrougnt, nnr how tne man nao come oy qib aeatn. tie pronounced opponent, as neany as i ran reproduce his speech, op-oh-nent.

with (hp stress on the third syllable. In the mtd-way between two large historical productions Mr. Matheson Lang falls back excusably on a melodrama from his repertory. The queer proceedings in The Chinese Bunpalow are already well known outside of Central Ijndon. and It is natural that Mr.

Lane should so far have been hesitant about bringing the piece to the more serious test of a run. for the standards of sllckness and surprise in rrookery have been steadily raised and this particular Chinese junk puts to sea rather slowly and then lumbers nlong amid the storms of Oriental passion to the haven of Happy-ever-after landing-tickets for Europenus only. However, for those who prefer Mr. Lang when he would n-Wn-iniz bo. there is comfort in the fnct may have expired suddenly from natural causes, but the late horrible disclosures prove that be niav also have been slaughtered for The Cambridge Festival Theatre reopens to-morrow with a production by Mr.

Peter This is a rare pronunciation riere, but the price oi the corpse. siuiie Americans to whom I mentioned It said that thev had heard it. In a play Godfrey or Mr. anaw "iiaint Joan. Other plays to be given this term are The Do not miss this series cf articles drazon from Lord Haldane' autobiography; which will be published in that Is a mistake.

Her feats have Utile in common with Tamara's Incomparable skill on the swinging bar at Earl's Court. While Tamara Is a prodigy of static balance, t.eitzel is a marvel of dynamic whirls. Hanging by one hand from a rope, she throws her body over and over tn several ways until she resembles a human Catherine wheel. Without a pause she executes over fifty of these aerial somersaults until we seem lo lose our breath merely watching her. tailed Mr.

James Halhday Pleasure Garden, The Prometheus of Aeschvlua. The Witch." Romeo and Pikfiu. Opxnujg or the CoiossrrrM. This Rlnmilar. lnaenious, and magnincem placi Juliet." HonolB," by Ernst Toller, and of national amusement was opened yesterday bv its liberal proprietor to a few literary ironounces financier fin-an-see-er, ill i the stress on the third syllable, and 1 have heard it pronounced in that man-r 3 i i times sinre.

The word irt- the Victorian melodrama, The Carpenter of Rouen. ffpnttemen and otner persons eminent ihfit he wears airnin Ihe nlnrid yet menac- i is penerallv pronounced rather 1-Sv inkwirrv her'f, the stress beine Rehearsals are In progress for The Ladv in Command," a new play with tne mask, a waxen tahiet now oenencert and hland. hut sonn to wri sentence of rieaih on nauehty Enellsh Interlopers. Hpre is the rich Chinaman, who lives in a MR. ERNEST MILTON'S SEASON.

scenes on a lonely Island by Mr. Rupert BCienCe or me ii.b. uidij uiuaiuu wilJVJI optics can produce, which taste can imagine, and the principles of the picturesque aud beautiful can effect, will be here witnessed in delightful and almost infinite variety. The whole of these may be described under three classes the Panorama, with its machinery and collateral ornaments and devices; the subscription rooms: and last, though not least, the grounds thrown open to the public. Downing, which is being produced by sir.

fortified bunealow among the rubher George Grossmlln. Miss tna urossmitn Mr. John Cranstoun-Nevill. and Miss Margaret Rawlinjrs are tn the cast, and the piece will be first seen at Hastings on Beginning TO-MORROW Ask your newsagent to deliver The Times. January 8.

it may come to London later plantations of Matnva nlong with a trenerotis oi i ft I of joss-Micks, pongs, and ill favoured hut muscular menials. His rhinniserie is so Invishlv on view and his manner to his EriL'lish wife is so grim that ihe hungflnw micht hn called Old Otnosuy Shop or Uleak House at your pleasure. Wnhin lliee walls, washed bv the river, hi hu the moon, flml chanled over by i on "the first syllable. We the lirst a in dahlia; the tinericiiiis harden it. The our pronunciation amuse 'i.

I bewilder the Americans, who ier lire of Hie jnke about the man vljorr name, was Lieerhain, which he lieiuihuini' and pronounced 1 I nverheiin! the reception rk in niv 'apartment-! iotel telling the that to1 had made a lot of i.ev gambling on the way in which "F.nglih pronounce the word tv rkel-v 1 have begun to confound Some months ago it was stated in The Observer that Mr. Ernest Milton Intended lo pn into management when a theatre could be obtained. He has now secured the Ouevn's from Ihe end of this month. Mis first prcHiurrion will be Pirandello's 11 Henry which lie is presenting under Ihe liile of The Mock Kinperor." and it will he followed by ihe comedy written by his wife. Miss Naomi Royde-Srnith, now" en-tilled Mafro." Mr.

Milton opens on the. but there is a prospect that Burlesque will be transferred elsewhere. "Til Before tlio new production of Shin." at the Everyman Theatre, the Mr. Burin, the manager of the Dublin Theatre, has given great offence to hiB prin ripol performers by withdrawing from their, the privilege of introducing any songs they pleased into plays. Mr.

Melrose has in oous-quence resigned" his engagement and returned to town. Miss Patoo and two other stars are about to follow hia example. Weekly Rtvieir. be a short season of I. 'Enfant Prodigue, mournful MhIkvs and moping ols.

Yuan Sine schemes conjugal and mortal malt the mime piay mat wus recenii rovi1 at the Arts Theatre. G. W. B. Hori rons over his nefarious purposes with.