The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
Good Story Told of Her Protest Against Pay
 Given Charwoman
OTHER GOSSIP OF
 ENGLISH WRITERS
Vachell of the Royal Flying Corps Is in London and Has Remark able Photographs Taken
 in the Air

London, May 2o.-(Special. )-Mrs George Bernard Shaw, who. of course, dabhles quite a bit in literary work. and has translated several of Brieux's plays into English, no longer writes at 10 Adelphia Terrace, I hear. Possibly the grinding of her famous husbands s literary mill drowns out her less pretentious muse. Or possi- hy she figures that there Just couldn't be enough inspiration in the air of any one locality to keep so many geniuses goingl For the Adelphia, as everybody knows, just swarms with the literary great. Besides the Shaws, there is Sir James Barrie (who, indeed. Is just across the street. and is said to attract c. R. Ss attention by throwing bread against his window, and there Is, too, John Gasworthy and from time to time, II. c. Wells. who has ped-de-terre in this region, Also Mir and Mrs. Joseph Pen- nell, who live in Buckingham street, not to mention all the members of the neigh boring Savage club, which is composed, of course, of authors, actors and other Bohemiansi
 Be the reasons what they may. how ever, Mrs. Shaw recently decided to set up a den" elsewhere and finally took a room in fashionable South Moulton street. where she has as her landlord no one else than Lena Ashwell, the actress Miss Ashwell, who you remember, married a wealthy physician named Simpson, is, 1t seems, the real proprietress of quite a renowned beauty parlor" in South Moul- ton street, whose preparations and vari- ous forms of treatment are by no means ment happened to have room vacant in its premises. and Mrs. Shaw took it.
 She is, of course. an extremely rich woman. Incidentally she Is, among other things. one of the leading lights-actually president. I believe-of a society which aims to see to 1t that female labor is not underpad. To fight sweating, in fact. When she set up in South Mouton street it was obvious, of course, that her study would need somebody to tidy it up daily. So Mrs. Shaw and Miss Ash wells underlings put their heads together and the latter suggested that their own "charwoman' probably would be willing to do" Mrs. Shaw's room daily and thought that half-a-crown, or, roughly, about 60 cents a week would be adequate reimbursement therefor
 This seemed reasonable enough, and Mrs. Shaw departed. According to the story, however, she came back a couple of hours later Gin a specially hired taxi) and told the manageress that she could not agree to the half-a-crown a week charge after all. She had figured it out she declared. and found 1t came to nine pence O8 eents) n day, a rate which, she said, she considered too high for un- skilled labor And this from a woman frequently described as a mlllionairess and the head of a society for keeping women from being underpaid The woman friend who told me the story did not know what remuneration finally was agreed upon. Or can 1t be possible that Mrs Shaw does out" the room with her own talented hands,
 War Has Made Vachell
 Lieut.. Reginald T. Vachell of the Royal Flying corps. who Is back from the fight ing front for few days looked in on me yesterday. He is the only son, of course, of Horace Annesley Vachell. the novelist and playwright, two of whose plays, "Quinney" and "Searchlghts,' are among the biggest hits of the present London season ,and who has just sold two more. He lived in California for some years .and still owns property there. The war has made a real man of young Vachell. who, when he left Harrow. was Just little too much of the 'knut" to