The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06

opportunity of ~vf0fnS = with' g,siis < London dressmAkers. who nave made According to American visitors. enormous strides of late years.
 sSrgent snubbed.
 John sargent, R. A.. has received suub from the Revision Court, tri- bunal that sits every year to examine ana revise the list of parliamentary electors. His name was struck on the register because 1t was declared that he is an "alien' and not naturaiized British subject A party canvassef ciicited from Mir. Sargents old Italian servant that his master. though domi- ciled in England for twenty years. had never been naturalized. Being still teohnicallys an American citizen, 4Mr. Sargent is thus not entitled to vote Tn England. This. however, will probab- Iy not cause or give the great por- traitist any serious trouble.
 shaw Plays.
 George Bernard shaw, who IS now recognized as the greatest British playwright, Is rapidly. making himself and his managers, verdrenne and Bar ker. rich as the result of the vogue which has set in for ''Shawian" dra- ma. So great lis the demand for the seats to see his plays that the Vedren- ne-Barker management have trans ferred their productions from the Court Theater to. the Savoy. a larger and more central house.
 rNcsrly every one of Shaw's plays" says Manager vedrenne. which we have produced at the Court Theater has record of 100 or 200 performan- cos. The manager of the theater usu- ally decides to end the run of a play when the box officc receipts are on the down grade: hut the receipts in the case of MT. Shaw's plays have always been going up when we de- cided to withdraw them to make room for sorhethings else,
 tsrhe second reviva1s of some of the plays have actually been more successful than either the initial per- formance or the first revivals. Man and Superman' has proved the most popular of the series, and it is follow ed in popularity by John Bulls Other Island aud You Never Can Tell II is curious to recollect that some of MT. Shaw's plsys were on the market for years and no one would produce them You Never Can Tell was actu- of the big West End theaters. but the management decided later on that 1t would not do."
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 Hone of Contention.
 The large British contracts for American made horseshoes and for American canned meats are still af- fording themes for argument to patri- otic Britishars. Tho British army made in America" is the latest cry. but s1 far has net attracted many followers. Tho British workmen,, de- spite the summing up of caricaturists. {. rxrrt kexa sa o ro rlx common sense individpal who knows that as a rule his is the paw that ia nado to lift the chestnuts from the fire. ~ .t
 The trust of horse shoe manufacture CTS, who trusted in the patriotism of the government for a continuance of its inflated prices. has been taught a statutory lesson by MT. Haldane and their disastrous i'll wind had dwin- died into zephyr by the time 1t reach- cd America.
 An attempt is also being made to stir up Canadian feeling by alleging that there are many places in that Dominion that are quite as capable If taking d btx army meat contract ihs Libby q but of course these only ex- tst in the inner consciousness of po- Iitical wire pullers
 There is no place Tn the world so well equipped as Chicago for the car- rying out of big contracts and the British government knows 1t. The last straw is the news that the 100000 chairs for the various British bar racks are to be made after the Amer ican pattern. After this comes chaos.
 Japs Buy Diamonds.
 English society ladies and even roy- alty who are complaining that dia- monds are growing scarcer, dearer,