Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1922-05-25
SPOTLIGHTS


toonlst, made famous through "Jiggs
and Maggie" He is making a sum
mer trip to Ireland during which time
he plans to purchase an estate of
which he says: Il expect to have to
deal with twenty solicitors, forty four
land agents, six members of the House
OF Lords, and one thousand heirs. be-
tore make a sensible choice and come
back with deed to an Irish place in
my pocket" He has a pretty strong
inclination now for one certain estate
and has Mrs. McManus in COMPANY
with him to help him in the choice OF
which there is a large variety offered.
The idea that Lady Astor would
prove the popular negative of that
oid saying about the prophet without
honor in his country" is about to re-
celve set back after all. Now some
OF the press comments note her stronq
pro-Brltish sentiment on the League
OF Nations as the real ostensible OBJ
Ject OF her visit, also the national dem
ocratic woman chairman of N. Y.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury takes issue
with. Lady Astor's expressions re-
garding Prohibition, although she is
accounted an ardent advocate of if in
England. But Miss Marbury chall-
enges Lady Astor to debate because
Lady Astor is reported to have said
frohlbltlon seemed to be an excell-
ent thing for the poor man." Miss
Marbury says, Il am too good a dem
ocrat and an American Democrat at
that to favor any law which spells
privilege TOR the man with the fat
purse"
Cora Harris who probably won first
place as a woman novelist in Georgia
by, her famous Circuit Riders Wife"
later publishing MY Son" also of
high merit, has now issued a regular
novel with Southern setting, called
the Eyes of Love-"
Julia Lester Dillon who has been
accounted for some time as an author
ity on landscape gardening in Georgia,
making her home in Augusta part of
the time, has now issued a book on
horticulture particularly adapted to |
this southern latitude. 1t IS called 'Tho |
Blossom Circle of the Year in Sont,!. /,
trn Gardens"
O'Henrys last manuscript with the
last sentence incomplete called The |
Dream" has just been sold for $3.50 |
to a collector.
DR.. James f. Dickey, leading di-
vine of the Methodists, South, has been
appointed Bishop at the recent con-
ference at Hot Springs His last
charge was at Griffin, Ga, and he will
be succeeded there by DR.. w. A |
Shelton professor at Emory.
Mrs. Alonzo Richardson of Atlanta
has done such effective work as chair
man of Citizenship, a department of
The Georgia Federation of Woman's
| Clubs she has been invited to a place
on the program at the Biennial Con-
ventlon in June
Mrs. Richard Croker is another wild
ow whose undivided inheritance of
her husbands wealth is going to make
no end of trouble for her with four
disinherited children. The fortune is
about $3,000,000 and about $2,OOO0O0
of it is Palm Beach water front prop
erty.
President Harding has declared him
self so anxious for the naval trans
port Henderson to carry the 1881
class of the Naval Academy to a re-
union at Tokyo as the guest of Ad-
miral Uun of the Japanese navy who
was member of the class, that he is
willing to pay out of his own pocket
the excess fuel required to get the
transport from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc waters. Opposition to the plan
had been made on the grounds of
economy. Pres. Harding thinks this
reunion and especially if Secretary
DENLY would make the trip would be
a mark of international courtesy that
would be productive of good feeling
in future relations with Japan.
To show that the taste OF movie fans
is not hopelessly degenerating, at
recent popular star contest given for
charity in New York City and in which
! the Astors, Vanderbilts. Goulds and
Harrlmans took a lively interest as
well as shopgirls, and factory workers.
also some literary people of note, the
two women getting highest place were
, Billie Burke and Mary Carr-both
mothers and conspicuotisly above re-
proach both as to their personal and
social qualities, Mrs. Carr having been
the bread winner for a family of sew
en- children and now white haired.
The three men who led were Tom
Mix, Will Rogers and Charlie Chap
lin, whose pictures and whose lives
are clean.
The Capitol city of Washington is
becoming more and more the mecca of
the women's annual convention trips
and their national headquarters. A re-
cent one was the 31st Congress of
D. A. r. with ZOO accredited delegates
held at Memorial Continental Hail.
now the official home of the organi-
zation. The Georgia membership is
1000 members. The Georgia regent
Mrs Max Land was not present at
the exercises of tribute to the I'm
Known Soldier in Arlington and Mrs
Chas. Akerrtln state regent-elect
placed Georgias wreath on the tomb.
Mrs. Chas. Graves Matthews a for
mer Georgian was chairman of the
reception committee for a function
never surpassed in brilliancy in which
1000 ladies took part representing con-
gressional, official, diplomatic and
residential Washington and three
hours was the time it took for the
lines to pass the official family of the