The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-27
(By Herbert Tempie.)


Shaw. who is quietly celebrating
Christmas at home instead of being
Toasted in New York told me today
why he did not accept Mr.. Frohman's
invitation to be his guest on the other
side of the Atlantic together with Mr..
j. NJ. Barrio, Mr.. Granville Barker and
Mr.. John Galsworthy.
Nov, how could any of us co. he
said. Mr.. Frohman opens his roper
toire theater here in February. Gals
worthy. Barker. Barrie and have new
plays ready for simultaneous produc-
ton then. AS each play takes at least
three weeks to rehearse, we are all
hard at work at the Duke of York's
just now. We want Mr.. Frohman
here much worse than he wants us in
New York.
Besides. why should any one, who
is in London, go to America: You
can understand anyone, who is in Lon
don. They all make rush to do SO.
l might change my attitude if the
stream were sitting the other way, and
it were the dream of every Londoner,
the moment he had saved any money
to 60 to America. AS it is. | am in
the right place. and the Americans
seem to think $3.50 why should l
| move: OF course, the Americans may
| be mistaken. l notice that they new
err know anything about their own
country. They are always astounded
if you tell them what is going on there.
| For instance. they are ignorant of
the fact that liberty does not exist
there. l could be arrested the mo-
ment landed. on a charge of melting
the women of America to immortality
by my good looks. could be impris-
oned for suggesting reform OF the
marriage laws or questioning the truth
of the story about Elisha and the
bears
How can you call America free
country, when you know of the power
ty of the masses and the frightful con-
ditions of child labor in the cotton
mills of Carolina. which are worse
than the mills of Manchester were a
hundred years ago: We found a
|
but they won't apply it, because the!
don't want to be free: they want tc
make money, and they don't care how
they do it, do not want to see the
statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Even my appetite for irony does not
go so far as that
ITO go to America is to go back
century in civilization. The manner
of living in Aemrica today is simpl,
that of two centuries ago, complicated
with certain developments of industrl
al brigandage peculiar to the twentl
eth century was born in the sew
enteenth century. have lived in ths
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
and have lived in the nineteenth cen
fury as we'll. am an 1rishman: ant
when I was born my father lived II
Ireland in the same way as Dean Swift
did. Really. might say he went fur
Their bac kthan that. His life was thu
sort of life described in Pepy's Diary
So you see amt hree centuries old.
Now. if it was a question OF goinl
to heaven. l might think differently
and want to go. if they would guaran
tee me plenty of work to do there; ou
don't want to go back anywhere;
want to go forward.
There is another good reason VIII
l should not go to America Ii l dt
everything else will stop. People Wi
cease to be interested in politics, CON
merce. art or anything else, Nicaragu
may shoot all the Americans it like
then: the shots will not be heard i
the din of the silly talk about Bern
hard Shaw. l should be public nu
sance, an Interruptions ramrod stuc
into the national machinery. Fo
Americas sake l spared her by sta,
ing at home"
. There has just been added to th
= Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln
: Inn Fields. an Chronological Museum
l which should prove of incalculable SCI
l vice to the professors of dentistry an
: of the greatest possible interest
7 thousands of others. The collectio
is the most extensive and valuable e,
er brought together to illustrate tn
anatomy. evolution and pathology {
, the teeth 1t comprises upwards {
; five thousand specimens, and is th
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