The Washington herald., 1920-04-24
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

I'LL
II It turns out to be true that
the famous DIR. George Z. Morrison
is able to return to Pekin in June,
after a period of prolonged conva-
lescence in England. then the Chi.
nese again will have at their beck
and call as adviser one OF the best.
Informed foreign experts. Morri.
sons longtime service in Pekin a.
correspondent of the London Times
his unrivalled collection of books
and documents (now, by the way
the property of Japan. and his
friendships with the Chinese used &c
put him q long way ahead Of any
Of his rivals.
The veteran English Journalist
Sir Henry Lucy, comments on the
dullness and stupidity Of the House
or Commons now as compared with
lts former estate. when he first be-
gan reporting its proceedings; and
he charges the change to lack OF
Irish represe ntation. The diagnosis
Is both interesting and acute. What
ever else he may be, the Irishmar
Is seldom stupid or dull. He has
! quicksilver in his veins and phos.
phorus on his tongue.
Akron. Ohio. is not a large city
but II Is progressive. To Carroll E.
Reed a Harvard graduate, whose
prior school appointments have beer
In New England and in Rockford
| Ill. IL now plans to pay a salary
OF $4,000 a year as superinte nde n
or Its public schools. Washington
mas TO face a fact like this as il
settles Its future policy-or rather
as congress settles IL for the Dis
trict.
Massachusetts has no special
blue sky" laws. yet her courts have
just found a way to convict the
notorious Thomas W. Lawson of
specious advertising for suckers"
and have fined him $1,000. Former
ly that would have seemed a small
sum to the promoter" in question,
but IL will come hard now.
One Of the European musicians of
eminence. who has found the Unit
ed States a nice oasis on which 10
settle when all Europe has been
desert. has been Eugene Ysaye
the Belgian violinist. He always
did well as a touring artist and he
had built up a loyal constituency;
but that implied travel and its at
tendant rigors and later weari-
ness. When Cincinnati gave him a
chance to go back to his early vo-
3
he signed up for two years. The
contract is about to expire; but as
! he has proved a success. and since
he is popular. the managers Of the
/ symphony orchestra have invited
! him to renew his contract. and he
I has done so. Cincinnati is not on the
music map of the nation as IL once
was. especially in the days of Theo-
/ dore Thomas. But IL has a better
orchestra than are some which are
| better advertised. and the old Ger
man n-American constituency stands
/ by il and provides a nucleus of sup.
port that can be banked on.
The newspaper or magazine that
first induces John r. Stevens, ol
/ the interallied commission Of en-
! gineers. working in Siberia for sew
eral years. to talk about his eNpe'
/ riences with conservative and Radi'
cal Russians and with the Japanes'
! will get a fine beat" Powerles'
] under present conditions TO az
ANYTHING further with railway res
ing homeward.
! Margaret Anglin, partial to tn
Pacific Coast, has given her mrs
rendering of an English version o
I Emile Moreau's "LC Froces a
Jeanne dare" in San Francisco, an'
local critics are praising her TO
duplication of triumphs previousl!
won in interpreting the Greek ira
cedies. Miss Anglin some time sine,
attached Livingston Platt as art dl
rector of her productions, and e
say that is to say all. That the mu
sic also might be entirely harmoni
Gus with the rest of the plays inter
rretation, an arrangement of Tschai
kowsky's The Maid of Orleans" wa
used.
As YOU run over the list of work
of sculpture by the late w. r. O'Don
avan. scattered rather widel.
throughout the United States. yo
see that Washington is not well rep
resented. Yet he was virginia.
born and a Confederate veteran. New
York became his home soon after tn
Civil War. and he helped found tn,
famous Tile Club.
Emergence of the name OF VI
Ting Farg as prominent in tn
group that is laboring hard to unit
North and South China recalls a per
sonality more original and deep thai
any other Asiatic diplomat who ha
lived here. To his credit be II sal
that during all the troublous year
of China's history since he returned
home he has been with the pro
1 gressives and not with the reaction
aries. He is a genuine republican
and not a monarchist.
Lodge to Speak at G.. O.P.