The Washington herald., 1916-01-06
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER
Close $3.50 ?. NJ.
Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
Copyright 1915, Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

Miss Dressler and Mrs Belmont win
make an energetic team anyway. When
Miss Dressler gave up her London house
sublet It. Among other accessories that
Marie left behind was a parrot as big as
an eagle. That parrot was a spoiled
child. 1t had the disposition of an angry
wildcat and the propensities of a Mexi-
can bandit About once day it would
raid the house, driving the maids out
into the yard and the folks upstairs be-
hind closed doors Twice 1t raided a din
ner party and cleared out the dining
room. II that parrot could catch me
with bare feet coming from the bath
room it shrieked with joy and had every
thing its own way.
But it Seyer tackled Marie Dressler, 1
was told.
Mr.. 7. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the
National Association of Audubon Socie-
ties, has a new idea. He wants the ceme-
tertes all over the country converted into
bird sanctuaries. He suggests that they
be surrounded by cat-proof fences What
are cat-proof fences, and is there any
such thing? II there is Mr. Pearson ba $
made great discovery. He can make
a fortune out OF it. Every householder
Will buy one to put around his back
yard.
Also, he wants gunners kept out of
cemeteries. That's another new one.
never knew that graveyards were used
Tor hunting preserves. In certain sec
tons OF the country graveyards are
mainly used, or used to lie, as a resposi-
tory for the results of gunners' actiyi-
ties.
Leslie Stuart, who wrote "Florodora"
and a lot of other well-known musical
plays, has coma to America to look the
field over. II he likes it he may transfer
his talpnrg n this side yiS
ing began as a choir boy and then he
was an organist- He told me once that
he composed all his operas on an organ.
Defending the Pineys.
The "Pineys" of New Jersey have long
had the reputation of being about the
most shiftless and worthless lot Of peo-
pie in the land Mr.. s. ]. McClenaghan
of Princeton, rises to their defense. He
says: Investigators flock there and find
man who has two wives, a woman with
five husbands and a few cases of de-
generacy. These people have been pass
ed by in the march Of civilization. They
are not degraded, but have never/beer
graded up. They are interesting and
worthy people"
Interesting. undoubtedly, but Mr.. Nc.
naghan's idea of worthiness is, to say
the least, peculiar, judging from his owr
description of them He has a Villa
viewpoint.
! sDOrsay O'Conner, the Irish author 1:
now in New York He is a great FRIEND
of Sir Thomas Upton II was Mr.. O'Con
ner's cousin who went to the front wher
the war broke out and wrote back a let
! ter, In which he said, 'In a month wei
be raising Shamrocks on the Rhine"
The report that Sandow, the strong
man, committed suicide In the Tower oi
London, where he was waiting sentences
of death as spy is not generally cred.
tied In New York. where he was wei
known. Sandow was in close touch with
| the English court. He was Kins
Georges physical instructor, and, as he
told me himself. spent half an hour
three mornings week in teaching the
king to box and putting him through
other athletic exercises. He would nat
urally be in a position to gather much
valuable Information. Mrs. Sandow was
a remarkably handsome woman. They
were very devoted and were constantly
seen together in the fashionable hotels al
lunch and thinner. The report had II
that Mrs. Sandow had already been shot
1t was the late firm of Roster & Bial
that introduced Sandow to this country
and to fame. Sandow, being a German
naturally drifted to a German manage
ment when he came to this country
looking for an engagement.