New-York tribune., 1910-11-27
DULL SEASON IN LONDON
Too Late in Year for Election to
Have Serious Social Effects.
JANUARY, BRILLIANT MONTH
Winston Churchill Criticised for
Acting in Suffragette Cases
-The eatrical Notes.
[Bv Gable to The Tribune. ]

London, Nov. 26.-The social effects OF
the elections are not serious, as this is
the dull period, without any events Of
importance except charity balls. an oc-
ca sional wedding and q few small dances.
The hunt balls. usually held In Decem-
ber have been postponed until January
and the pheasants will be saved for
shooting parties after Christmas.
January will be a brilliant month at
the country houses, after the political
oratory is finished and the Primrose
Ladies' are resting from their labors.
A pinch will come when election bills
are settled for the second time within
twelve months.
The American Ambassador and Mrs.
Red are making a weekend visit to
Rushton Hall as the guests of Mr.. Van
Allen. The ambassador will be enter
tanned a. Welbeck Abbey when he de-
livers his address at the inauguration of
the Byron chair of English literature at
the University College at Nottingham,
next week.
Winston Churchill, who has been
shooting pheasants with the King, is Sc
verely criticised by lawyers for enter
ing a nolle proseQui in the suffragette
cases. This is the ordinary privilege of
the Attorney General and the Home Of
flee exercises mercy only after the
magistrates have examined witnesses
and the cases have been disposed Of jtl-
dicially. The Home Secretary in his
eagerness to get rid OF troublesome
prosecutions has strained the preroga-
tives of his office three times within
week
The Society of Authors co-operated in
the organization of the New Academy by
the appointment of a committee of Sc
lection. Mrs. Humphry Ward COM
planned of this action at meeting of
the council on the grounds that the
members had not been Informed of the
contemplated action and also because
women were excluded from the commit
tee Of selection
Bernard Shaw, who was not numbered
with Sir Arthur Pinero among the i'm
mortals, enlivened the debate with
sarcasms. and Maurice Hewlett. as
with official decorum. A compromise
was finally effected by adopting Sir AL
fred Bateman's timely suggestion that
notices of meetings should contain a
memorandum of agenda.
Whatever may have been the irregu-
larities in the methods OF selection, the
thirty immortals, now enthroned in the
Sra 1ox. 10
beyond the reach of caviling criticism
by members of the Society of Authors.
They can I'LL the ten vacant chairs at
their leisure without assistance from
disappointed aspirants.
The elevation of Archbishop Bourne
10 the cardinalate is confidently eX-
pected by the English Roman Catholics
He is now in Rome The admission Of
Abbott Gasquet TO the Sacred College is
also predicted at the next consistory
but probably with premature haste.
The final performance of Electra
with Fraulein Goetze as Clytemnestra.
drew another large audience to Covent
Garden to-day.
Nine. Ackte has begun rehearsals of
"Salome." which promises to have the
success due TO curiosity. Even with the
modified dances and changes in the
libretto ii is expected TO be as good a
drawing card for Beacham as Electra"
The only important change at the
thea tres next week Will be the produc-
ton of Gladys Unger's adaptation Of the
French play. Decorating Clementine,"
at the Globe, with G. P. Huntley and
the American company.