Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-04
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BY MILTON
NEA Services Writer

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LONDON-As the Partisan press
Is no ~respector OF persons-not even
! when they have Just died-the pass
ing away OF Pierre Lott, one of the
greatest of her modern writers, has
Brought forth a shower of stories.
The famous author, who in letters
was known as Lott, was really Louis
Viaud, scion of an old French Prot
estant family and a captain in the
French navy. Because Of the beau
tiful prose of his books, he was
elected to the French Academy-one
OF the Forty Immortals.
According to one story, the aging
Lott was not above using makeup on
his face. He also INDUCED in eccen-
tricities in his dress which struck
Americans as effeminate.
A number of years ago he was
en- route to America to be present
at the premiere of q play he had
written. In obedience to a tip from
America, a French officer tried tact
fully to hint to hims tos1eave Oft cos
metics. Lott flew into a rage.
When the camera men am
| aboard at New York, Lott was right
there-his cheeks slightly rouged,
his eyebrows darkened, his hair
| carefully curied. He obligingly posed
| for the picture men as much as they
| pleased. But what was his dismay
| the next day when most of the pa
pers merely printed a photograph of
| his small feet encased in shoes with
| high heels and with the caption:
THE feet of M. Pierre Lott of the
French Academy"
An old French seaman, who serv-
| ed under him said:
"When M. Lott locked himself In
his cabin to write his beautiful
books, everything went smoothly on
| the cruiser. But when he left off
his pencil and paper and tried to be
commander of a warship, o mon
Dieu dh--as a seaman he was a good
writer"
The most exclusive order in Eng
land-far more exclusive than earl
doms, marquisates, baronetcies, etc.
has just celebrated its twenty-first
birthday. 1t is the Order of Merit.
founded by the late King Edward.
All a member gets is the right to
sign 20. M" after his name, but 1t
is coveted because the membership
is limited to "a exclusive of foreign
honorary members, and is conferred
only for very great services.
Great soldiers like Earl Haig and
Earl Ypres, great statesmen like
Lloyd George and Lord Balfour,
great lawyers and philosophers like
Lord Haldane and great writer's like
Thomas Hardy and Sir j. M. Barrie
are in this very select company.
Lady Nancy Aston is a good friend
Of the American reporters and they
~ HTL-~--
not long ago they entertained her
and Lord Aston at luncheon. In a
little speech she said the reporters
knew far more about things than the
men who employed them. because
ing the men who were worth while
and beholding things with their own
eyes.
Don't you think so?" she said,
turning to Joseph Pulitzer, one of
the of the New York World.
Eyes" he replied promptly.
Don't o think SOP" she said to
her husband, who is largely inter-
ested in a big London paper.
For full fifty seconds the husband
looked teasingly at his wife. Then
he answered firmly and defiantly:
moi"
Over here in England they still
use the word cheek to mean what
we variously express by crust"
nerve" and gall" The other day
a Labor member of Parliament from
Scotland, looking at former Premier
Lloyd George, said:
II believe If he were to fall from
the Clock Tower into Old Palace
Yard he would rise and walk away
unhurt, because he would land on
his cheek"