The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-29

/ flict was regarded only as a remote pos
sibility. Now Bernhardi's name has he
come household word in these islands.
ana II Mrs. Edward Arnold previously
wanted any one thing particularly badly.
no doubt she has 1t by this time.
writing of Edward Arnold by the wav.
REMINDS one that he has just published
announcer nightly interesting book, sDays
of My Years. it is called. by Sir Mel
vile Macnaghten, the former chief of the
british police and supreme head of SCOT
land yard. Sir Melville who already ba G
several volumes to his credit, writes with
great vigor and lot ST humor despite
the fact that his pageo are mostly CON
cerned with terrible murders and other
crimes.
Naturally he has good deal IN say
about the famous case of DR.. Crippen.
the american dentist. He admits that he
became obsessed by the thought of Grip
Zen, and the hope of his capture. sI
remember" he writes, walking through
81 James Park en- route for the office
and the Following Jingle coming into nv
head. I record 1t with apologies to nv
friend, Mr.. Fred Terry:
We sought him here, we sought him
there,
Detectives sought him everywhere.
Is ne In heaven, or h. maybe,
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1t is interesting to note that Sir Mel
Vile believes DIR. Crippen might hav
escaped If he had not bottled with a fe-
male companion dressed up in boys at
tire. All young women are not Vesta
Tilleys," he observes dryly.
Historic st. Martins Church
Wonder If pretty Pauline Chase, the
goddaughter of Sir James Barrie, and the
former Pink Pajama' girl of U. S. A.,
is aware that old st. Martins church.
where she was married the other day, has
theatrical associations stretching away
back to the times of Nell Gwynn? Ten
to one she doesn't, for it has become
rather fad. of late, to hold stage we'd
dings at the picturesque old church which
overlooks Trafalgar square and Charing
Cross, and the nuptials of both Sir Her
bert Trees daughter Viola and Marie
Lohr were "solemnized' there. The ST.
Martins of by-gone days, however, had a
different association with the stage. Far
quhar. the dramatist, was buried there,
and. by her specific request Mistress
Gwynn, who left G1O0 to take Protestant
parishioners out of the debtors prison,
ESQ to Catholic residents to show her
charity and the wherewithal to provide
decent pulpit cloth and cushion
She begged her friend the Vicar, DR..
and he delivered a notable discourse.
Of which we have no further record
| though broadsheet of sensational
character, which he denounced, was
hawked In the streets DR.. Denison's SER
mon nearly lost him the bishopric of
Lincoln, from which he proceeded to the
| archbishopric of Canterbury. But Queen
Mary dismissed the objection. For she
said, If I have read mans heart
through his looks. had she not made a
| truly pious end, the doctor could never
have been induced to speak well Of her,
The things that people will devote theif
| time to. Imagine anybody trying to con-
| struct an anagram out of the Kaisers
| now famous phrase about General
French's contemplate little army!' Yet
some industrious Briton has done 1t, and
by Transporting the letters has made them
| read, Celtic men at the front repel Ger
many's Bill" Wonder how long 1t took
| him!