The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-21

for the buildings. These lavish dona-
tons should establish q record for public
libraries. and there should be great re-
1oiclnS among prospective librarians.
How far these rejoicings will be shared
by the public, who have to keep up the
libraries remains to be seen.
Soon to Visit America.
The Count and Countess Won Arnina
are intending to visit America shortly.
This is interesting: of more interest to
the general public than many society
announcements. for Countess Won Arnim
is the clever author of Elizabeth and
Her German Garden" and possibly her
visit to the States may have some effect
On her future writings.
Elizabeth" was Miss May Beauchamp.
She was amusing herself by playing the
organ in a church in Rome when she
first met Count Won Arnin1 the son Of
that German Ambassador at Paris whose
quarrel with Prince Bismarck is mat
ter Of history The German Garden"
is in the extreme north of Germany, not
far from the Baltic.
An Interesting Wedding
Fraulein Reitz, who was married the
other day to Anton Lang, the Christu.
in the Oberammergau Passion Play OF
1900, was recently in England on visit to
Miss Miner. of Haworth. York. Mrs.
Lang. who took the part of one of the
guardian angels in the Passion Play. is a
typical German blonde. She made many
friends in this country during her stay.
She also assisted Miss Miner In her de-
scription OF the Passion Play at the
Countess Grosvenor's town house. IN
Park lane. last March.
The entertainment was in aid Of the
fund being raised for endowing two beds
in the hospitals at Oberammergau, as a
gift from English visitors to the play.
cd her audience with rendering Of
Gounod's beautiful setting of There is
green hill far away"
Death of Veteran Actor.
rhe Oldest actor in the world has .ust
died at Davenport. This was James
roel who was born in 1904, at Maiden
Bradley. on the borders Of Wiltshire and
Somerset, and lived in the West country
the greater part Of his life. Jimmy
poel, as he was universally called. ex-
cept on play bills, was a pathetic link
with the long and forgotten past. He Gi-
rected from time to time several thea
tres in Devonshire, and made money on
..circuit.'' He took to the sock and hIs-
kin in 1920 the first piece he played in
being the farce Of THE Birthday In
the sixties he became q lcensci1 Flctual-
Ter. and was we'll known as caterer at
Devonshire races and regattas.
He adopted the motto II am here" aud
r1any people whose thirst was not par
ticularly keen patronized Doel's booth for
the sake Of shaking hands with Jim
my 1t was asserted that Doel once play
ed I-auncelot Gobbo to Edmund Eean's
Shylock at the Exeter Theatre OF the
period, though it is difficult to establish
the fact. Undoubtedly he performed with
Tia cready. and he appeared as Mawv-orm
to the DR.. Cantwell, of Dowton. who
himself reached a patriarchal age.
His formal farewell Of the stage took
place at the Plymouth Theatre in 1876,
when he played Captain Copp in How
ard Payne's comedy OF Charles the Sec
end" and Farmer Ashfield In Thomas
Morton's Speed the Plough" Five years
afterward he again appeared in tho lat
ter character, which was his best.
In 1890 he was announced as the First
G"avedigger to the Hamlet of lis CID
friend Wybert Rousby, at the thea ire
which had recently been erected in East
Stonehouse. the township near Plymouth.