Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-06
LONDONS WINTER GARB
NEW BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
Jockey Sloane Sharply Criticized for
Gambling-Big Price for Bed-Notes
of the Theatrical Season.

of London, although many of the the
aters were closed on the day of the
funeral. Aside from this the week has
been the same as usual.
The phenomenally fine weather pre-
vailing Is the despair of the store
keepers, who say they cannot sell any
winter clothing. The month of october
was the driest since 1894. Laburnums,
primroses and wall flowers are grow
ing and strawberries are being gath
cred in the south of England.
A new biography of Queen Victoria,
written by Richard r. Holmes. of the
S. A., the queens librarian at Windsor,
appeared on Friday and Is attracting
much attention. II was prepared un-
der the immediate supervision OF her
majesty, and abounds in family Incl
dents, shows the queen has never en-
tirely abandoned the relaxations of her
earlier years, and points out that with
in the past fifteen years she has sung
with Tosti and has taken drawing les
sons from Leitch. The biography
gives among other matters, an extract
from her maiesty's journal in 1855, de-
scrbing her pilgrimage to the In
valldes during her visit to Paris. II
reads: 81 stood at the arm of Napo-
leon III. his nephew, before the coffin
of England's bitterest foe. l, the
granddaughter OF that king who hated
him most and who most vigorously
opposed him. and this very nephew,
who bears his name, being my nearest
and dearest ally. The organ of the
church played God save the queen at
the time. Strange and wonderful In
deed. 1t seems as If in this tribute Of
respect to a departed dead foe, old en-
mites and rivalres were wiped out
and the seal of heaven placed upon
that bond of unity which is now hap
PLY esta blished between two great
and powerful nations. May heaven
bless and prosper It,"
From the comments heard in the
clubs, 1t is not likely that Mr.. John
Lawson tombstone, of Kingwood, Kent
the principal director of the well
known and largely advertised COM
pany. who turns out to he the pur-
chaser of the prince Of Wales's famous
racing cutter Britannia, will he re-
ceived with open arms In yachting cir
Giles. In fact. It is rumored that the
prince sold the yacht on the express
condition that the purchaser should
not race her and that she is to be
rugged as a cruiser.
Mr.. tombstone also told the inter-
viewer how he had recently paid $50
pounds ts3750) for a bed upon which
Prince Charles slept before the battle
| of Culloden. This he offered to pre-
| sent to Queen Victoria, who replied
| that only on one or two occasions had
she accepted presents from a common
err and she could not see her way to
accept the bed However, It was a
very pleasant letter; very pleasant"
said Mr. tombstone, who added that
the duke of Argyll had promised to
come and sleep In the bet, so soon as
the matter could be arranged. The
newspapers jeer at the inappropriate
ness of the selection, ms the Cam
bells, of which clan the duke of Argyll
Is at the head, were the deadly enemies
OF the Stuarts.
An echo OF the famous Ardlamont
| tragedy was heard at Leeds on
Wednesday, when Alfred ]. Monsou,
who, In 1903, was tried on the charge
Of numbering his pupil, Lieut. Dudley
Cecil Hambrough the jury bringing
in verdict of mot proven" was sum
moned as deserving his wife. The lat
| ter said her husband had left her In
| February. 1896. and had failed TO pro-
vide for her and her six children, all
Of whom are under 10 years Of age.
The sporting newspapers have de-
voted much attention to Tod Sloane,
the American Jockey. since he has be-
| gun winning races on the English turf.
| Sloane's magnificent style of living as
| tonishes the English sportsmen. He
has apartments at the Hotel Cecil,
with his valet and goes back and
| meetings. II is now announced that he
will probably be here a year. Sloane,
mitted Croker to use the Jockey club
| however, Is much criticised for bet
ting He had 800 pounds on st. Cloud
| ii for the Cambridgeshire stakes. and.
as Jockeys here are not allowed to bet,
the Jockey clubs attention is being
| called to sloane's proclivities. 1t is
urged that II he remains here he must
be stopped from betting. The Evening
News hopes the Jockey club won't
| gloss 1t over as II did when 1t per
| enclosure"
Neither the Cat and Cherub at the
Lyric theater. nor The First Born at
| the Globe theater, are successful, and
The First Born will be withdrawn to-
day and the whole company of six will
return to America
Clement Scott, as well as the Lon
don critics generally. has been I'M
| stlnted In his praise of May Buckley.
| Scott says in the Daily Telegraph; I'VE
have not besitated to proclaim the cos
mopolitanism of dramatic art to the
injury, perhaps. of our people, but
BREEZY, The Cat and the Cherub is
worth a music hall turn, and The First
Born is not worth an evenings enter
tninment. America is very welcome to
| England. but she must give us better
than we can produce, and The First
Born is not that.
Much feeling seems to have been
aroused by Beerhohm Trees offer to
| DAILY for Ada Rehan to appear In an
adaptation Of the part OF Katherine In
The Tanning of the shrew with which
Tree opened the season at Her Mates
| TVS Theater on Monday. Augustin
| DAILY says; II could ont have consid-
cred II possible that Mr.. Tree would
send me such q managerial insult as TO
separate Miss Rehan from her COM
| panion and ask her to descend to play
| in an emasculated version of Shakes
peare's play after she has established
her renown in the production with
which she is distinguished"
Mrs. James Brown Potter does not
speak In the most complimentary
| terms of the Australian managers un-
| der whose direction she was introduced
| to London as a star. The season OF
eight weeks at the Duke of York
| thcater. for which the contract with
| Mrs Potter and Mr. Bellew were en-
gagged, closes tonight and the American
| actress will rest In London for the win
ter after years of hard work in several
| continents
81 did not expect to set the Thames
on fire when l came to London" Mrs.
| Potter said, but l am greatly graft
| fed by my success"
II am glad to be one of n few Amer
| lean actresses who have gained n post
ton on the London stage--Ie believe
| Mary Anderson. Miss Rehan and my
| self are the only ones.
! Ten years ago. when 1 entered the