Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-27

here in August.
I would like to know where
Caruso can be heard next winter, if
it is possible to tell mem. o.
| Caruso has been .re-engaged with
the Metropolitan Opera company,
New York, for four-year period.
Miss Farrar has accepted three
years extension Of contract. Mr..
Amato, completely restored to health,
will resume his place with the COM
pany. So if you are fortunate
enough to hear Caruso next season,
you will have opportunity to enjoy
/ other famed artists.
1 read with interest the recent
reference in People You Ask
About" column to the engagement
of Princess Mary. Can you tell me
more about the man in the case?"
&C. D.
We made it clear, did we not, that
| there has been denial Of the en-
gagement of Princess Mary, only
daughter of England's king and
| queen, to the earl of Dalkeith, in
spite of which rumor persists. The
| earl is lieutenant in the Grenadier
Guards, the Prince Of Wales regi-
ment. Serving on the personal staff
of the sovereign as he did, he came
in close touch with the royal circle.
He is scion of one of the oldest
| and most famous Of noble Scotch
families. The family mot is "Amo"
Il love-" Twenty-Five years old,
tall, clean shaver and good looking,
he is the eldest of three brothers.
He is of the house of the bold
Buccleuchs." The first head of the
family was Sir Walter Scott (not the
novelist). The SCOTS fought with
the Douglases against the king of
Scotland, and in the process founded
the vast estate, which today
amounts to some 100000 acres
Many are the honors and high the
titles which will descend up on the
earl of Dalkeith.
How did Booth Harrington reach
his present success as writer?-
l.. H. M.
By ability and hard work-the
route over which success of almost
any kind comes. 1t is said of Tar
kington that he worked for eight
years writing almost necessarily and
acquiring as varied an assortment of
rejection slips as was ever accumu-
lated by a struggling author, until
S. S. Mcclure finally accepted Mon
sieur Beaucaire," and then The
Gentleman from Indiana" In "Pen-
rod" and Seventeen" he has equaled
if not excelled Mark Twain in de-
lineation Of the psychology Of boy
hood and youth.
Newton Booth Harrington was
born in Indianapolis, Ind. on Jr'v
20, 1869. His family was one of
means He attended Purdue u4.,,e4-
sity at Lafayette, Ind, where Nc
Cutcheon and George AIDE had pre-
ceded him, and later graduated from
Princeton. He was married to Lau-
rel Louisa Fletcher in 1902, by whom
to Susannah Robinson.
Can you tell me the name of the
Iowa girl with the best school record
for attendance ?-Omaha School Girl.
Miss Alyce r. Miller, daughter of
Calvin J. Miller, druggist Of Wa
terloo, who has not been absent from
school or tardy in 10 years. She thus
excels the record of Miss Eva Peters
of Renwick, who has a similar rec
ord for IL years.
J. H.-If you are interested in the
new Pacific fleet Of the United States
navy you may be glad to know that
Admiral Hugh Rodman has been as
signed to it's command. He is
brilliant and versatile officer, and one
who has seen more sea duty than
any other man on the active list.
He is native of Kentucky and was
appointed to the naval academy
from that state. When he left An
napolis in 1879 he was assigned to
the Yantic and went to sea. Later
he devoted many years to coast sur
vey work. 1t was his good fortune
to be with Admiral Dewey in the
Philippines and to be the agent
through whom Spain surrendered its
forts on Corregidor island. In the
latter part of 1917 he was appointed
to duty with the British grand fleet,
and when the United States entered
the war in the following April he
was given command of the United
States battleships operating in the
war zone. Last September Admiral
Rodman was knighted by King
George with the Order of the Bath.