The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-11
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

I want to forget for the moment that movie star, and celebrity and treat him simply as man.
 1 I failed to enthuse when Manager Ar rowood of Loew's Bijou kindly invited me down to meet him and hear his talk and watch him as he walked through his parts on the screen. I am rather fed up on that kind of stuff and really greatly enjoyed being able to take a rest when the theatres were closed on account of the epidemic of influenza, for I had become some thing of a movie fan,' and needed a vacation.
 I steered clear of the BiJou, but went to the Kiwanis club to hear Dr. billiard and there by accident heard Montagu Love, and to be perfectly frank I liked the chap from the moment he walked in, for he is a fine specimen of physical manhood.
 The only thought, however, that weighed against him in my subsconscious mind was the fact he was here in Amer ica when his brothers overseas were giv- ing their life's blood for the sake of old England. But he explained that 1t was a sore regret that while he had volun- teered at the very first he had been rejected.
 He, however, has done good work in America as one of the four-ninute speak honor to be enrolled among the picked men and women who are called upon to speak for the various war activities. He takes his appointment as great privi- lege and opportunity to at least be of some help.
 When he was introduced he told sev- eral good jokes in. fine style, and said that he felt like at last he was getting to be a good American, for he had been told that he was one Englishman who really could appreciate American humor. He looked upon this admission with pride.
 But he hadn't talked long before he struck a serious note and you could glimpse the real human beneath the ac- tor. He told how hard 1t had been for the first few years of the war for Eng lishmen in this country. He admitted that personally he had been treated with the utmost courtesy and consideration, yet there was an undercurrent of an- tagonism to England that had been and was being stirred by the German propa- gandists.
 Much was being said about the perils of navalism being as bad as that of mili- tarism and the Anglo-Saxon menace on the seas, meaning Englands naval pre- ponderance was ever to the front, and it was made to appear that the United States had more to fear from the mother country than she had to fear from Ger man aggression.
 But this was not the hardest thing to bear. for it was out in the open and could be met, it was the undercurrent of suspicion that was being whispered in the clubs and hotels and Pullmans that the English were laying down on the job and letting her allies do 1t. and worse still her colonies were bearing the brunt of the fighting. It went to the bone.
 Then if an Englishman had lived in this country and failed to become natur- alized he was criticized for not being an American, and if he failed to rush homeward he was counted a stacker, and a fellow couldn't explain even if he wanted to. to casual strangers that he had volunteered, but had been rejected. and so he passed some weary months.
 He belongs to a number of the New York clubs-the Friars, Players, Lotus, City and Screen-and in them all he sensed a feeling that England was being weighed in the balance in their minds and found wanting but he thanked God that at last the truth was known and nc one dared longer to ask What is England doing in the war7s for Ameri- cans have been at the fra and fought