New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
AMERICANS FILL HOTELS
A Record Breaking Season for
Visitors in London.
THE OPERA LANGUISHING
Few Observation-Disclosures
ing Views 'on Missions
Thomas Hardy Honored.
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London, July 9.-The hotels here are
swarming with Americans. Mr. Parton.
manager of the steamship combination,
and Mr.. Flagg, manager of the American
Express Company, assert that larger
number of travellers have crossed the
Atlantic than in any previous year and
that there will be new record of tourist
traffic if business continues with equal
momentum
The great magnet has been the Pas
sion Play" and the majority of Ameri-
cans now arriving here are bound for
Oberammergau. Another feature is the
considerable number of companies of
young women who are travelling for ed
ucational purposes. One delegation Of
twenty three California girls has ap-
peared this week, another one of about
forty from Western state, and there
are many others.
The American Ambassador is again
passing the week end in seclusion at
Wrest Park without guests. He gave a
quiet luncheon party yesterday for
Bishop Lawrence, Senator Depew and
other guests.
General Leonard Wood is passing
through London on his way to Argen-
tina. A r. Smith and his associates on
the barge canal committee are also here.
The Rev. DR.. Buckley has gone to the
Continent.
Charles B. LOOMS is returning to
America to-day, after having given to
drawing room and club audiences ample
evidence of his skill as a humorous en-
tertainer.
Bishop Hartzell, the strenuous worker
in the Methodist mission field, will sail
tomorrow for a long circuit in West
Africa, Rhodesia and East Africa. He
expects to return to London in January
and then repeat his missionary journey
with an associate evangelist He asserts
that the Christian world must wake up
or find itself Outrivalled by Mahometan
fanaticism in Africa. He is profoundly
interested in the work of the great mis-
sionary congress at Edinburgh. yet is
confused by the conflicting views of
what was accomplished. He has read
with establishment the articles in THE
Church Times" the High Church organ
cOndemning the tendencies of the con-
ference, and from the other pole of &c
clesiastical thought Lord Kinnaird, the
champion of extreme Professionalism, has
warned him that the Romanists and Rit-
ualiSts are conspiring for the control Of
the foreign mission fields.
George T. Wilson. after motor tours
in the lake district and elsewhere, has
returned to London for the remainder
of the month. He will entertain Gen
eral Stewart L. Woodford at a large
dinner at the Carlton.
A new American hostess from Cali
fornia, Mrs. Miller Graham, has intro
duced the Russian dancers in her ball
room for the entertainment of her
guests.
The social season is dragging along,
with charity functions and boy and girl
dances, and is spoiled by the coolest and
wettest July weather known in many
years. Mrs. Harold Pearson's dance
alone has approached the dignity of a
ball.
Tetrazzini and Melba have succeeded
in filling Covent Garden whenever they
have sung, but the opera is languishing
from listless patronage and Indictment
weather.
The revival of Tess" has been d lit
erary rather than a musical event, espe-
cially as Thomas Hardy has made
rapid recovery from his serious illness
and witnessed the performances. Mr..
Hardy is receiving to-day kilograms and
letters of congratulatiOn on his admission
to the Order Of Merit with Sir William
Crookes. 1t is not generally known that
Mr.. Hardy has twice declined the honors
of knighthood, preferring to retain the
simplicity of the old Wessex form.
Thomas Beecham continues to delight
music lovers at His Majesty's Theatre
with operas which are genuine novelties
here. "Feuersnot," by Richard Strauss
was produced tonight before a crowded
and enthusiastic house. 1t had been
thoroughly rehearsed, for Mr.. Beecham
has a sympathetic comprehension Of
Strauss's motifs and methods and in
sists on having the works intelligentIy
rendered by the singers and the orches-
ira. The subtleties of the score We're
mastered and the dramatic passages
were given with splendid effect. William
Wallace's English translation Of Ernst
Won Wolzogen's poem was used There
was an effective scene of legendary
Munich, and the parts were well taken
by competent artists.
Die Fledermaus'' has also been pro-
duced with marked success, and G. H.
Clutsps opera. "a Summer Night" with
only five chara cters and a single act is
booked for next week.