The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-18
LONDON CHRISTMAS
Gay Scenes in the Great
Shopping Centres of the
Worlds Metropolis.
COURT LEAVES FOR OSBORNE
Clement Scott stirs Up a Theatri-
cal Storm in an Interview
General Gossip.

nary mild weather continues, to the mani
fest advantage of London's poor. The
regular Christmas does not appear so
heartrending as usual. The shopping
streets are bazaar-like. the curbstones be-
ing crowded with vendors of a wonderful
variety of marvellous penny toys. Inc
Court left for Osborne. Isle of Wight, at
ten o'clock yesterday, where there will be
larger Christmas parties than usual OF
the B~attenbergs, C~onnaughts, Lornes and
Albanys, though the festival will be of
the quietest description, the only enter
tainments being for the children. The
Countess of Warwick expects to give
birth to a child in February. Her young
est is now fourteen years old. She is
very busy over a new scheme to establish
an agricultural training college for wom-
en-, to educate them in scientific and COM
mercial dairying, poultry and bee rear
ing n the preserving of fruits, jams,
etc. The Countess, however, has found
time to write a life of Joseph. Arch, the
labor leader and President of the Ma
tional Agricultural Laborers' Union, who
has also been a Methodist preacher and
has lectured for the union in all parts
OF Great Britain and in Canada In this
work, the Countess of Warwick, who was
better known as the famous beauty, Lady
Brooke, expresses advanced views on Mr..
Arch's theories.
The Christmas theatricals at Blenheim
will include two playlets. written for the
occasion by Mr.. Malcolm, in which the
and Duchess of Marlborough and
Lady Randolph Churchill will ave parts.
Lieutenant Robert e. Peary, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Peary, will return to the United
States on board the American Linz steam
er st. Paul, which sails today from
Southampton. The Lieutenant has been
besieged by inventors, who have submit
ted plans for flying machines. submarine
boats, ice-boats, steam engines and cleo
trical apparatus for reaching the North
Pole, all impracticable.
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess
of Greece, otherwise the Duke and Ouch
ess of Sparta, will soon leave Athens, to
be absent for a year. Prince Constantine
is suffering from severe nervous depres-
sion, and he and his wife, the Princess
Sophia of Prussia, will go to the Riviera,
and then to Germany and England.
Henry Labouchere is the author of a
sensational article in Truth the au-
thority for which is a well known foreign
diplomat. The, article says
.Greece was involved in the war with
Turkey owing to the endeavor of King
George to bluff the Gar into hurry1ng
the marriage of Princess Marie. The Car
declined to interfere and King George,
knowing tina Russia was most DESTROYS
that there should be no disturbances in
the South of Europe, played with he War
Party until it got beyond his control. The
Gar then warned King George that the
Turks would occupy Athens and that his
dynasty would cease to reign. King
George finally entered into an arrange
ment with Russia, the latter promising
the Turks should not go beyond Thessaly,
provided no real stand was made against
them. that the Greek forces in Epirus
would not seriously operate against
and that the Greek fleet would re-
main inactive. All these arrangements
were carried out, the. Crown Prince,
Prince George, and Colonel Xassos all
The DAILY Chronicle" which continues
to champion the cause of the Greek
Royal family, processes to know that the
story. is untrue. but it is generally be-
Clement Scott, the dramatic critic, has
stirred up a storm by the circulation or
a sesT = r fnsstS Of atta an hnset the morals a1s
of the stage His u~tterances are based
on the most intimate lifelong acquaint-
n with the personnel of the profession,
and his position as dean of the London
critics gives his views Importance. Seeing
the advance reception, Mr.. Scott request
ed the editor not to print the interview,
which he refused to do. Mr.. Scott, in the
interview, said it was nearly Impossible
for a woman to remain pure, who adopts
the stage. adding that the freedom OF
t. -~A4 o,I h mr.
tain renders 1T almost impossible for a
woman to preserve that simplicity of
manner which is her greatest charm"
plored,s he added, lis that a woman who
e~ndeavors to keep her purity Is almost as
a necessity foredoomed to failure in her
still more terrible, 1t is true, but no one
dare deny It,"
artistic people in the world and more
completely without the saving grace of
than any nation
Being interviewed on the subject of this
interview Mr.. Scott protests that 1t is not
an attack on the stage, that he has not
been accurately reported and that 1t is
not fair to quote extracts, as he was
speaking for a religious paper and from a
moral standpoint. Many actresses" he
continued. lead noble lives and the chill
dren of actors who are forewarned Of the
dangers seldom go astray."
Most of the actors decline to comment
on the interview with Mr.. Scott, but
Beerbohm Tree, who has a feud with the
critic, remarked
1.-THE article will injure neither the stage
nor Mr.. SCOTS reputation"
Christmas pantomines will absorb the
attention and the money of London the
atre-goerS and theatrical managers
throughout England during the next
fortnight. In London alone there will be
fifty pantomines staged for the holiday
season, most of the music halls and the
suburban houses, and the two chief at
fractions will be presented at the Drury
Lane and Garrick Theatres. Fairy tales
and the classic children's stories. "Cinder-
ella" Robinson Crusoe." Jack and the
Aladdin ..Dick wilmington, Dick
Sailor are some of the principal produce
lions in the pantomine line.
1.-THE White Heather which has been
enormous houses al the Drury
Lane. will be temporarily withdrawn to
way for THE Babes in the Woods"
mer the most popular music hall artist
in London. will bear the principal parts
in The piece. The story is to be practi-
callv a burlcsquc of the old nursery tale
brought up TO date. The most elaborate
scene is to be a valley of orchads wherein
sent all sorts of flowers. There will be a
triangie of twenty-one flying fairies and
the whole production will be on an elab-
crate scale.
The star part in Oscar BarretIss presen-
tatson of .sCinderella', at the Garriek, will
singing in Florence ST. Johns place in
Ella Perichole." ard Cissy LOTUS is toS
appear at the Court Theatre in a revival
OF The Children of the King"