The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-20
QUEEN WILL REVIVE
OLD STATE CONCERTS

v!ously presented at court. IN due
form In fact. there has never beer
any liberation at these State con-
certs OF those pEctensions on the part
Of artistes who in the case OF private
entertainments. not content with re-
ceiving a large check for their ser
vices, insist upon being treated as the
most distinguished o; the guests, by
way OF tribute to their genius.
There Is little or no applause at
until the principal royal personages
present has given the signal for II.
and then II IS very subdued and dis
Greet The concerts in the reign or
hour and half. and then the royal
process SION again formed. and. con
Quoted a. before. by the great disni,a-
ries OF the court, who progressed again
crab fashion. that is to say. backwards
three steps and then a bow. followed
, by three side steps. and then another
bow. etc, IL made its way 10 d pri-
Vate supper room, TO which usually
the foreign ambassadors and ambas-
sadresses, and several OF the most
notable guests present. were special
~ summoned by the gentlemen in
waiting. The remainder OF the guests
adjourned to supper in another apart
ment: feature Of the repast being
a special brew of hook cup. invented
by George ~. The leading artistes
OF the concert supped in u third room,
and as soon as they had finished. were
conducted out of the palace by an exit
entirely distinc: from that OF the
mainder of the guests
it is only fair 10 add that in spite
OF this somewhat invidious treatment
OF the art!stes. masculine as we'll as
feminine, there was never any diff
services, while the music at these
State concerts at Buckingham Palace
was uniformly OF the most excellent
and iirst-claS scharacter.
Strange is the fate that seems to
overtake the most famous explorers,
VINO SO often. after escaping from ex-
traordinary dangers, in barbarous and
unknown regions, are overtaken by
utterly commonplace and withal fatal
accidents at home. Thus, John Speke,
one of the discoverers of the sources
OF the Nile. after the most hairbreadth
escapes from death at Central Africa,
returned in safety and wholly unin-
J9red to England. only to be killed
,thtr0ish an accidental discharge of
his gun while cut rabbit shooting in
the neiGhborhood OF Bath. could
mention dozens of similar instances.
which are recalled to my mind by the
news mat Sir Francis Sounghnsband.
the famous explorer OF Central Asia.
or western China OF Chinese Turkes-
tan, OF the Cobb Desert, of Thibet. and
OF an those little known regions in
Wnich the great river Brahmaputra
takes its source has been Knocked
down and run over by an automobile
IN Belgium. while walking in the
vicinity Of Spa. sustaining a bad com
pound fracture of the thigh, conces-
lion of the lungs. supervening 70 sitIl
forther diminish his chances of re-
covery.
Sir Francis. whose father and pater
nal grandfather We're distineuisho.
generals OF the Anglo-Indian army
was cavalry officer before Joining
the Indian political service, is married
to the widow of Colonel T. Vessey
dawson of the Coldsueam Guards, and
until last year, when he retired from,
the service, by way of protest against
the policy then inaugurated by The
British government in Central Asia
and the undoing of all the good work
that he had accomplished in Tibet he
was British resident, that is to saw
plenipotentiary. in Cashmere. one Of
the NEST Important posts in England's
great Indian Empire
Copyright. 1911, by the Brentwood
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