The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-16
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1 will confess that 1 caught the lor
ry fever myself and from the drivers
seat of huge van marked wv. D." ira
versed Regent street, Bond street and
Piccadilly on more than one occasion.
1t gave one quite thrill to pass less
lucky folk if they happened to be
friends, who were on foot and who gaz-
ed enviously at me seated at my ease
beside cheerful driver of an army
service corps wagon. also, one night
after a dance when taSis were unob-
tainable, had cause to bless re-
turning coal van run by steam en-
CINE that breathed volumes of black
smoke out of a fearsomes funnel. Its
begrimed driver was, however, a true
Samaritan, for he took aboard a cargo
of very merry people whose spirits
might have declined perceptibly had
they been obliged to walk home in
dancing shoes in the early hours OF
very frosty morning.
But now all seems to be for the
present, peace once more, as far as
underground London is concerned, and
the numbering lorry no more carries
on" for the benefit of the itinerant
public. .
In spite of strikes and rumors of
strikes and other things. to say moth
ing of the biting and bitter cod
which we all seem to resent consider
ably, London is quite CHEEKY place.
Dancing is. everywhere an dtheatres
are overlooking and there are rumors
of more to come" That very intel
lectual and "arty' theatrical society,
the Pioneers, gave a performance last
Sunday night in the theatre that is at
tached to the National Sporting Club,
which is situated just on the edge or
Covent garden market, and vis-a-vis
to the famous and historic Church pf
ST PauPs.
The National Sporting club is, of course.
the scene of many of the most famous
private boxing competitions in England !;
and its president is the Earl of Ions
dale, who is, I suppose, the representa-
tive British sportsman of his time. Oc-
casionaily the theatre of the club where
these great fistic encounters occur. is
thrown open to more peaceful entertain
inents, and meetings of the Pioneer So
ciety call together very notable gather
irgs of fashionable "intellectuals
On the Sunday evening of which am
speaking there was most interesting
audience. Among them I noted Lady
Beatrice Pole-Carew. who when she was
the debutante daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Ormonde, was considered
one of the most beautiful girls of her
time. She married General Pole-Carew
about II years ago. She is splendidly
handsome with a wonderful and almost
classical profile and her coloring has the
lovely characteristics of the typical Irish
woman with its creamy skin. greygreen
eyes and crinclled hair of soft chestnut
brown. Lady Beatrice was with her hus-
band, General Pole-Carcw. wing was one
time considered one of the most hand
some men in England. near neiRhbor
to Lady Beatrice was Lady Randolph
Churchill, who looks rather strange now
adays with the ends Of her short white
hair curling from beneath fur-edged
ttrban of vivid blue and gold brocade.
The Countess of Dudley was also to be
seen enveloped in a wonderful sable cloak
with a small cap-like headdress, of black
and gold bound with sable. e
Miss, Ellen Terry was the observed of
all observers, and everyone who knew
her in the big audience crowded about
her stall between the acts. Another the
atrical celebrity present who is also some
thing of a social autocrat, was Miss
Doris Keane. who came with her hus-
band, Basil Sidney. She was wearing a
| close toaue Of gold embroidered in vivid
eastern colors with a heavy tassel OF
gold and colored strands dangling on one
side. Her coat. made from beautiful
old Indian shawl was lined with ermine