The New York herald., 1922-05-03

A multitude OF friends ana relatives
OF voyagers by the Cunarder Aquitania,
off yesterday for Cherbourg and South
ampton, jammed pier and ship, and the
big liner was unable to leave until three
quarters of an hour behind her sched-
ule. The apassageways of the ship be-
came so congested with those who had
gone aboard to say goodby to more than
1,400 first and second cabin passen-
gers found it physically impossible to
leave the ship until long time after
the all ashore call. II was said by vet
Grams to be the greatest crowd OF visit
ors at pier in the annals of seagoing.
It was estimated that the number In the
visiting throng was 5000.
Eleutherios Venizelos. former Premier
OF Greece, who was greeted rapturously
when he arrived here with his bride,
made an effort to sail without any fuss.
and his name was not on the prelim-
mary passenger HIST. Only n few inti-
mate friends saw him off. He and his
wife will stop in England some time.
John Mccormack voyager.
John Mccormack, Irish tenor, recup-
Grating from his recent illness, sailed for
daughter Gwendolyn and son Cyril. Mr..
Mccormack said that the first songs he
would sing on his return would be for
Archbishop Hayes's charities. songs or
ithanksgiving for my restoration TO
health" He will visit the home or an
old friend, Sir John Morris Scott, VINO
gave him the opportunity to appear In
opera at Covent Garden in 1907.
Miss Els:c Sheridan Stevens. Englisn
rA1
Kelland. deplored the publicity she got
because of her experience with the al
legged British card sharps. who arrived
here by the Adriatic. and who were DE-
tained by the immigration authorities
until they consented to sail back home.
Miss Stevens said she would soon APP
pear in London in n revival or Ihe
School for Scandal" written by one of
her ancestors. and that II she could not
get a theater her friend, Ralph A. M
Haslan. a British barrister, who sailed
with her, would buy one
Z. H. Sothern sailed with his wife,
Miss Julia Marlowe. They said they
had had a wonderful season. lasting
more than thirty weeks. which convinced
them that the interest in Shakespeare
in America is increasing. They Will
spend the GUNNER in Switzerland.
Mrs. Louis G.. Kaufman was TO sail
with her daughters, the Misses Ann and
loan Kaufman, but did not 60 because
OF a death in her husbands family
only Miss Ann sailed with Mrs. Mitch
ell Henry.
New American Liner Sails.
The new and fine United American
liner Resoluto also was besieged by
great crowd OF folk ambitious to see
their friends and relatives of for Plyrr,-
outh, Boulogne and Hamburg and the
slim was delayed moro than half an
hour. Every berth was taken. S21 go
ing first class. 275 second and 41s third.
Fritz Greisler. violinist, and Mrs.
Ereisler sailed on their way to Vienna,
where they will remain several weeks
Later they will go to Venice and in
october Mr.. Kreisler will give concerts
In England. When asked IL IT was
rossibie that he might be appointed
Austrian Ambassador to the United
states he smiled, and pointing to his
violin case, said: This is my dispatch
box"
Other departures by the Resolute were
John Charles Thomas. American barry
tone; Rudolf Jung. Swiss tenor: Kurt
SCHNEIDER. conductor OF the Schola Can
forum: Miss Madge Leasing, musical
comedy star Edgar Speyer and Mrs.
George Dearborn and her son, Douglas
Dearborn.