The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-23
SEEKING TO SELL
PLAY|N NETWORK
Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
Hopes to Find Buyer for
Her Wares.
MARTIN ACTS As AGENT.
Winston Churchill Is Proving a
Very Live Home secre-
tary.
MARTIN ACTS As. AGENT
Winston Churchill Is Proving a
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London october "a Frederick
Townsend Martin has been COMMISSION
ed by Mrs. George CORVALLIS West az
envoy plenipotentiary to sell her play
in New York, and he will.sail or this
voyage OF hope early in November. y
is an open secret that Mrs. Vests on.
Winston Churchill, the Home Secsetars.
has given his mother a good deal q
advice and assistance In the construc.
ton OF the play. Should the play pc
accepted Mrs, West will go to new
York. and remain there for the iilsl
time in many years. for the "hole
winter. Her young husband, who nam
ages to get a good deal of enjoyment
out OF life. will accompany her.
Winston Churchill Is proving tns
livest Home Secretary that England
has had in many years. He recently
paid series Of surprise visits to the
prisons and released several juvenile
offenders. He is already the terror OF
county magistrates whose pleasure II
is to inflict the harshest punishment on
poachers,
His beautiful wife. who did not take
the faintest interest in either political
or social, as distinguished from society
before her marriage. has now
caught the enthusiasm of her HUSBAND.
This week she spent three hours N q
London police court listening iatensly
to the sordid stories of petty crimes.
She has become a member of the Fer
sonal Service League, which was found
ed partly by Mrs. As1uith.
HOstcsxcs md the %lIOuscs
Lady Spoyer. wife of the %financier,
.SirE,dgar Spoyer, has taken Nc. % Cav
endish Square. the former AsQilith yes
idence. for six months. Lady Spoyer,
who was formerly the Countess
.Leonora Won Stoucn, is an American.
She was n professional violirtst. and
gives charming musicals, In ',hiclt she
Is ,tc star performer, at her house IL
Street
The regular shuttle is going on now
among Americans as to their houses.
The Hon. Mrs. Charles Coventry, who
divorced her first husband, Mr.. Nc
Creery, will not be able to get into her
new house in Brook Street until nearly
Christmas.
Lady Marlborough, Mrs. Chauncy's
sister, has given up her home in Port
and Square.
Alfred Vanderbilt has closed his gor-
geous fiat in Plccadilly and intends to
spend his whole winter In New York.
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Mrs. James Henry Smith. are installed,
in Grosvenor Square.
Mrs. Maldwin Drumnond is fixed for
the winter in Carlton House Terrace.
Lady Granard. who is staying with
the Duchess of RoxburEhe, in Scotland,
is expected at Forbes House, B%elgravia
Square, next week. She will give two
brilliant receptions In November to
the Liberal party leaders. All London
is anxious to see the interior of this
much discussed house, which Is now
practically completed.
brought In "Doped" Dog.
Sleeping draughts for dogs is the
secret wrapped in the bosom OF Bar
oness Won Koenig. a lively German wo-
man. we'll known in Berlin and Lon.
don The baroness has told only her
friends OF her secret, with
strict injunctions not to breathe a
word. so 1t was known all over Lon
don by Yesterday. The baroness said
to her friends in broken English:
You know my dog Fiji. You know
also the stupid English law that no
dog, big or small, can England enter
without being locked up-what you
call quarantine. Well, Fiji ha 8 trave
with me In America and Japan-every-
where. But Eff she barks much when
she Is excited; SO 1 go to a chemist in
Paris. and he makes me a secret recipe
Tor a sleeping draught for Eff; no so
10 harm her, but make her what you
call snooze.
Yesterday, before we arrive at Cal
ais, give Eff the dranght and put her
IN a large bag. On the boat I take Fiji
out OF the bag and put her under the
rug over my feet. The customs man
comes, and TO him my husband shows
the almost empty bag. At Dover I put
rim In the bag and run to my motor.
IN London Eff wakes up and yawns,
ana sol beat the stupid English law.
n baroness has entrusted the recipe
70 an up-to-date West End chemist.
and he foresecs a great run on his
store until the customs officials learn
OF IL, as perhaps they may do from
reading this.
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