New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-10
KINGS "DURBAR SHIP
PREPARING FOR VOYAGE
The Medina, with Its Forty Suites
of Rooms, Will Be the Larg.
est Yet Seen at Suez. q
D0NCASTER HOUSE PARTIES
Grafton Galleries Fall Exhibitions
Said to Make Academy's Win.
ter Displays Of Old Masters
Almost Impracticable.
fBy Cable 70 IRE Tribune. ]

London. Sept 9.-what is called here
the "durbar ship" is nearly finished at
Greenock for the royal voyage 70 India.
The Medina, with forty suites OF rooms
will be the largest liner that has ever
passed through the Suez Canal whiS
enamel paint will be lavshly used, ana
bands OF ultramarine and gold will b
painted below the promenade deck.
The Medina will carry powerful wire
less installation. and the King will have
a daily bulletin from London throughout
the voyage. Sir Colin Keppel will COM
mand the ship and four cruisers will &C.
company her.
The largest house party FOR the Don.
caster races next week will he at Nor.
mandy Park, where Sir Berkeley Shelf.
field is entertaining Lord Abingdon, the
Earl Of Essex. Lord Marcus Beresford.
the Earl Of Rose and score or NOR.
Of other society people.
Womersley Park. Belviderc Riccall
Hall and other we'll known country
houses will be open Seldom has there
been such tropical weather for the north
ern course.
Royal Academicians are complaining
that winter displays OF old masters have
f,,w-.osg1.ffa
the activity Of their rivals at the Graf
ton Galleries, where exhibitions are he'd
every fall for the benefit of the National
Arts Collection Fund. These are well
managed 10y Sir Edgar Vincent and
Roger Fry. and owners 81 well known
works prefer TO have them shown fO- =
national purpose instead ~ being To-
served for the Academy and disparaged
and undervalued by art critics. The
new show at the Grafton Galleries viii
probably yield $4,000 for the enrich
ment Of national collections.
New Biographies Coming.
The autumn lists OF the publishers in
clude the "reminiscences Of Admiral Sey-
mour an autobiography of n NJ. Hynd-
man. in two volumes; Frederic HarTi-
sons photographic memoirs and 4
biography Of Sir George Newnes
There was a japanese entertainment
FOR the votaries Of musical comedy to-
night at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and
The Mousme" gave promise Of yielding
an adequate financial return Tor the
capital invested in its sumptuous Orien-
tai setting
The most important play next week
will be The Ogre" by Henry Arthur
Jones, with Sir George Alexander in the
leading part. II will be comedy deal
ing with the management OF a busy
mans home, and there will be plain
moral for restless society women.
Alfred Sutro's new play, with seven
characters, The Perplexed Husband
will not be so serious as the title sug-
gests. and the melodrama at the Drury
Lane. starting with the proprietes Of
woman's college at oxford. will be an
ola podrida seasoned for the constant
clientele Of these productions.
The music halls are rivalling the ac-
tivities Of the theatres, the engagement
Of Leoncavallo as conductor in a con-
densation Of his own masterpiece.
.'Pagliacci," at the Hippodrome being
the most conspicuous stroke OF autumn
enterprise.
Some Music Novelties.
A choir festival opening tomorrow al
Worcester Cathedral will present the
usual medley Of old and new music
Elijah" The Messiah" and other VEN
cradle scores will be sung. and Elsars
second symphony and Parry's corona
ton TIE Deum" will compete for honors
with "Parsifar" and Bach's st. Mat
thew's Passion" There Will also be sew
eral novelties. Mr.. Walford Dayiess
Sayings Of Jesus" Granville Bsntocks
"CEdipus Colonnus" and eve mystical
songs for barytone and chorus by DR.
Vaughan Williams. with settings for
George Herberts verse.
The religious press is not unanimous
in approval Of Nj. Asquith's episoopal
appointments. as High Church men have
been preferred for oxford, Salisbury ana
Birmingham. while i've other bishops IN
the Northern diocese are Moderate
Church men. High Church men, with I've
exceptions. rule in the province OF Can
terbury. II Mr. Asquith and the King
between them fail u satisfy the Evan
gelical Anslicans IL is because there are
few conspicuous Moderate Church men
available for promotion.