The Washington herald., 1920-06-17
In the Limelight
BY George Perry Morris.

The custom of appointing men
with academic or literary traditions
and habits to the post of Minister
to Greece Is not to be altered.
Princeton's professor of Greek since
1905. Edward Capps. is the new ap-
pointee, succeeding Garret Drop
pers. also, a college professor but
an economist rather than a classi-
cist. Naturally, when Ii came to a
matter of choice where he should
work abroad during the war. Pro-
lessor Capps chose Greece, and his
record there in charge OF the Red
Cross relief work proved his ad-
ministrative ability. He, thus would
seem to have unusual qualifications
at the present hour to watch intel
ligently and report accurately hap
penings in that Greater Greece
which venizelos and the territory
distributing powers have given to
the ancient land. We do not expect
Professor Capps to bid for the Al.
banian kingship as did one OF hi.
predecessors who has passed into q
state of political '.innocuous desue-
tude."
The death of Rejane. the French
actress, will recall to many per-
sons who saw and heard her wher
she was in this country, a clever
somewhat versatile. and engaging
player. Lacking the extraordinary ~
mentality OF Bernhardt or Duse, the
Italian, she had an infectious
humor. excellent technique and q
lpleasing personality. She was one
of the last of the European players
to visit us while French standards
and adaptations of French plays
dominated our national stage. Soon
there came a turning to the new
school of British dramatists and
to our own playwrights.
With the retirement OF G. Stanley
University. Worcester, Mass, a
large figure in the history of Amer
lean education ceases to be respon-
sible for administrative duties and
is left free to work exclusively in
the field of authorship where ne
always has done his best work
One of the first Americans to mas
ter the facts and theories of the
new psychology as taught in Eu-
rope Prof. Hall returned to this
country hoping to join the faculty
of Harvard University. But II was
not to be. He was in great demand
as a writer and lecturer on prob
lens of education up to and after
the time he was called to the prest-
dency of the new university at
Worcester. and this popularity con-
tinued until well into this century
He has been a most prolific author
of popular as well as technical
| works, but he never has won the
wide audience that William James
did
When Anna Katherine Green was
the conceded ablest writer of detec.
tive stories the press of the coun.
try had not seen the advisability OF
using fictionists OF this type fol
conjectural work on cases like the
| Elwell murder now looming up a.
nine-days' mystery. or possibly
longer. A new day has come and
now Arthur b. Reeve and Arthur
| Somers Roche are on this job. with
a world watching to see how much
aid they can be to official sleuth.
and to reporters who have special
lied in criminal hunts. If Roch,
gets paid for this work at any,
thing like his customary magazine
space rates he can dismiss all feal
of H. c. l.. for the next year. VIII!
do American "Arthurs" turn to de
tective stories? 1t has alwayi
seemed to me to be a most conven
tional, yea even proper first name
fitting well the hero of the Ar
thurian Legend.