The Washington herald., 1920-04-28
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

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Mr.. walter Hampden has no rea-
son to complain Of his treatment by
local critics or by the public dur
ing his recent week Of PLAYING in
the city. Attention already has
been called to the tribute paid to
his Hamlet" by Mr.. sothern, in a
speech which the latter made az the
City Club when he was In the city;
and am told on good authority
that Mr.. Sothern frankly admits
the superiority Of Hampden's Ham
let" to his.
George Gray Barnard, the sculp-
tor, whose vicissitudes with clients,
private and public. have been many.
has had no large public commits
sion since his Pennsylvania Capitol
work. OF late he has lived In hrs
extraordinary home. on the heights
of upper New York City and work
ed for private clients. who have the
amplest sort of purses. As, for in
stance, Mr.. Rockefeller, sr., whose
penchant in art is sculpture. Barn
ards The Birth of Eve" the mod
el OF which he has just completed.
has disclosed him to his old admir-
ers as still able to rise to the stage
of the symbolic and poetic and able
TO work on a large scale with the
finer implications of art still strictly
adhered to.
Trinity College. Hartford. Conn.
has been seeking a president for
some time, following the resigna-
tion of FlaveI H. Luther. The his
fnrv ~ he
ligious Affiliations made il almost
inevitable that the man chosen
should be a clergyman OF the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church. Such has
been the outcome Rev. Ransom
Brinkeroff Ogilby. Of New York
City, has been elected by the trus-
tees. To New England and lower
New York State adherents of this
church Trinity College has been
an institution to which youth could
with safety be sent with the Ger
tainty that the church's point OF
view would be steadily impressed
upon them. as might not be the
case were they to matricUlAte at
Harvard or Columbia
There is nothing comforting to
our national pride in Hon. NJ r.
Egan's statement that the inhabi-
tants OF the Virgin Islands have
suffered rather than profited by
substitution of American for DAN
ish control He knows, for it was
he. who. as our minister at Copen-
hagen. negotiated the transfer in
1917. when Denmark needed the
m ma ~
she did her Indian possessions.
Fortunately a Congressional COM
mittee. which has been investigat-
ing the conditions of the islands.
is reporting necessary constructive
action that will enable US to es-
cape Mr.. Egan's indictment II the
Job is costly and IL the outgo will
be more than the income, what Of
it? There is a standard of life to
be maintained for all American de-
tendencies. {.
Alexander wheelock Thayer. who
when he died was our consul at
Trieste. gave fifty years of his life
to writing a biography of Bee
thoven. Published in German il
fills five volumes. the first issued in
1866. The later volumes are trans
lations from the English text of
the manuscript into German by edi-
tors as competent as Deiters and
Reimann. 1t now seems likely that
an English version will appear, con-
densed and translated by Krehbiel.
the well-known critic of the New
York Tribune, who completed his
task just as the war opened. Hap
PLY the Beethoven Association of
New York City has come to the aid
of the editor, the Thayer heirs and
the publisher. and will see to il that
the masterpiece is worthily printed
and put on the market at a not too
high price.
In the interests of scholastic ac-
curacy, we trust and not with the
idea of creating any more contro-
Versies OF a kind already too COM
mon involving happenings in Jeru-
salem, Professor Paul Haupt, of
Johns Hopkins University. has just
announced that in his opinion the
Calvary mound on which Jesus was
crucified was in the Valley of Hin
non reached by the Gate of Taphet
and was an elevation produced not
by nature but by an accumulation
of the broken pottery OF potters and
the piled up bones of men who had
suffered execution by the Romans.
Professor Haupt does not believe
that the site ever was called a
mount" until the fifth century after
Christ, and that II is not now above
the level of the surrounding coun-
try