The Washington herald., 1920-05-11
In the Limelight
By George Perry Morris.

@oiBG GiIy AotNNos III
Mary Roberts Rinehart Is getting
to be civic-minded. Her later fiction
win show the effects OF her political
experiences. Meantime those per-
sons and political forces that cross
her path may prepare for trouble.
She Is a versatile. able writer. with
a large following Of readers. Gnd
many loyal friends among editors
and publishers. Senator Boies Pen
rose just now Is her target. His
ignorance OF women she assigns as
the main reason for his contempt
of them and his constant obstruc-
ton ftheir cause and their civic
desires. She has informed the wom-
BEN of Pennsylvania that all they
hope to get in that State from its
legislature or from it's Federal rep
resentatives will be won despite the
will Of the senior Senator.
Another group Of academic trus-
tees must get busy and find a COM
petent university president. DR..
Henry d. Drinkep, Of Lehigh Uni
versity, Bethlehem. Pa, who, since
1905. had guided the policy Of that
excellent scientific school, has re-
signed. Cause?
Age and q desire to let a younger
man meet the problems of a new
day. Born in China, educated for
the law as well as. in mining en-
gineering, and with much exper-
ience in railway management, DR..
Drinker came to the presidency as
well equipped for managing an in
stitution Of the sort as a man well
could be.
The resignation of Miss Bertha
Beodey as dean of Radcliffe College,
Cambridge. provides an opportunity
to fill the place with a comma nding
personality able to symbolic the de-
mands of the time as well as Alice
Freeman. Of Wellesley. did in her
day. and as well as Miss Taft at
Bryn Mawr bids fair to when she
is formally given full power there.
Alice Freeman had the human
touch" the capacity to both teach
and practice ideals, the power to
share in public life and yet know
her students intimately that made
her a personality rising far above
the rank of a mere administrator
and an acceptable institutional
figurehead.
Walter Damrosch and the New
York Symphony Orchestra seem to
/ have captured Paris at the first con-
cert in their important tour Of Eu-
rope. Naturally emphasis was put
upon the work of French compos-
ers. and Dindy's 'Istar" not only
was we'll rendered, but the composer
was long applauded by che brilliant
audience and cheered by the orches-
ira and director and the musicians
Quite an innovation that! Just 10
show that in music there is no
chauvinistic nationalism. Beethov-
ems Heroic Symphony" was on the
programme. and France still lives
An American Oberammergau in
the hills near Hollywood. Cali
| fornia, is projected by Mrs. w,
Yorke Stevenson OF Philadelphia
who has the support. 1t is said OF
| prominent leaders in the Protestant
and Roman Catholic Churches. In
! GLIDING Bishop johnson OF Los An
/ geles. The California climate and
scenery lend themselves to schemes
/ of this kind. Santa Barbara has re-
! Gently been the scene of one OF the
| finest pageants ever given in this
country, planned for and directed by
Samuel Hume OF the University OF
| California's dramatic department
! and supplemented and enriched with
music by Arthur Farwell. the wei
| known composer. The tale told ir
! pictorial form very properly wa.
based on the history of the region
in its days of Spanish control and
! first contacts Of Europeans with the
! aboriginal dwellers.
| President Emeritus Eliot. Of Har-
ward University. always has had .
1 blunt, disturbing way OF occasional
ly saying what he thought whether
/ ii pleased majority of his hearers
or not. Suave and polite when oc-
casion demands he never is afraid
] to be terribly candid as a minority
leader. Sometimes he jars educa.
tors. sometimes clergymen, some.
! times public officials; now he is in
dieting West. Pointers in a whole.
sale way. He reflects in this case
dominant New England opinion ere.
ated by the experiences of the old
State militia with the army In
France. There is no support for hi.
position in the book on the A. f. F.'s
record in France written by Har.
wards own professor of military his.
tory. Il. NJ. Johnston. whose prema
ture death takes from the country
its ablest civilian student of mill.
tary history and strategy.
W. Bourke Cochran has emerged
from comparative obscurity to rous,
the T1mmany cohorts at tho New
York Democratic State convention
to rejection of the Wilson interna.
tional policy. II he really had choser
early in life to be tribune of the
people instead of a special pleadeI
for causes" good, bad and indif
ferent, what a power he might
have been, for his armory of elo.
quence is rich in all the weapons OF
the Celt.