Evening journal., 1913-10-18
GOSSIP OF THE COURTS
By FL AN e U R.

twice entertained King James ! there.
1t was rather unfortunate for the host,
for the King took such fancy to the
place that he offered to exchange 1t Tor
Hatfield, and the earl practically had
no option but to agree.
Emperor Williams chilly reception at
Posen. where he passed through on his
journey to the Kaiser maneuvers, may
remind politicians Of one of the great
unsolyed problems which have still 10
be faced in Europe Nothing is more
remarkable. though the newspapers
completely refuse to allude to IL, than
the "rsorgimente" of the Polish race
during the last thirty or forty years.
The weighty problem presents itself IN
full force to the German statesmen,
and they may be led TO reflect on the
fa lure of their land policy in checking
Polish influence. The only result has
been that millions have been put into
the pockets of Polish landowners for
the acquisition of their estates, and
that the same money has been ex-
pended bv the latter in the purchase OF
landed property farther west, thus ex-
tending Slay influence from Posen,
where alone it hourished therefore, to
all over Prussia.
There is another circumstance that
must add to the evaporation of the
Teutonic bureaucracy. The Polish
girls are nOtorously pretty and
charming; the honest Germans fall IN
love with them. and they and Their
children are lost to Germanism and
Professionalism. The modern generation
of Poles is different from the dreamy
and somewhat impractical race OF
fifty years ago. The Pole of today is
alert, business-like, and practical. and
imbued mere than ever with the Polish
spirit and national consciousness.
All three particpators in the iniquit-
Gus partition are keenly aware of the
existence of the problem, and it is part
of the stupidity of the Russian gov
ernment that instead of recognizing
Polish nationality as fellow Slavs. the
Russian officials do all in their power
to suppress IT, If there were con-
tented self-governing Polish province
on the Russian western frontier, any
danger OF attack on Russia from the
side of Europe would be eliminated,
but if things 20 on as they are, some
day the Polish problem will become
terrible danger to the peace of Eu-
rope
The most enterprising and ambitious
coup ever executed by motion picture
enterprise in Russia has been arranged
for a performance in one of the Cars
palaces Startling as it may seem, the
impresario has been granted permis-
sion to stake the great national drama,
"The Death of Emperor Paul. play
which has not been permitted in Rus
sia under any circumsta aces hereto
fore. not even in book form, and no
for the history of Russia con
tains no darker page than the assas-
sination of father with the consent
of his own son and heir. 1t was Alex
ander the Car of the Napoleonic era,
who quietly went to sleep in his wife's
apartments, giving the order to the
waiting woman to awaken him if she
should hear commotioh."
The motion picture camera will be
taken into the very rooms where the
Inflated Gar was strangled to death
Those rooms never have been entered
Tor more than century since the
night Of the tragedy. The palace now
is used by the war department. and
is known generally as the Engineers
Palace. The concern also has oh
tanned permission to make use of de-
tachments of the Ismaileffsky and
! Pawlofsky regiments of the Imperial
Guard to appear in the pictures. Both
of these troops were on guard at Car
Pauls palace when he met his death.
and had to be fixed" by the satellites
of Alexander and his advisers.
Copyright, 1913, by A. D. Jacobson.)