The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
JOHN MCCORMICK
 TO VOICE TENOR
 BUT NOT VIEWS
American Singer To Keep Mum On Irish Issue
 While In London

LONDON, May 31.-(By Associated Press. )-JOhn Mccormick is coming to England at the end of this month tc voice his famous Irish tenor instead of his political conviction which until the Irish Free State was formed usually caused embarrassment whichever the singer came into contact with the British.
 Mir. McCormick's concerts planned for London in recent years were can celled because of the Irish question This issue dominated even art but now that home rule is a reality friends Of the tenor say he is going to press his American passport into service and come to London to give concert at Albert Hall June %. Indications are that the music lovers of this city are preparing a warm welcome for Nc Cormick.
 Fear Is Abated
 Great Britain has received the assur- ance of Ramsay Macdonald that Ram saygrad shall never supplant London as Leninegrad had replaced Petrograd- which at one time was known as St Petersburg.
 At a dinner the other night at which the British prime minister spoke it was humorously mentioned that such a possibility existed. NIT. Macdonald quickly quieted the fears of the diners saying it had been his painful duty to listen to and read of many of-his own possible crimes" but he had never heard it suggested before that he was capable of inventing or applying such "a horrible name" as Ramsaygrad-
 Sunshades Appear
 Suushades such as those used by Helen Wills. the young American wom- an tennis champion, on the courts made their appearance this week m some of the smart London shops Why the women of Britain should need anything to protect their eyes from the glare on tennis courts nobody seems to know, for there are very few minutes in the course of year when the sun 'glares" upon this island In deed the climate is almost the anti thesis of Miss Wills native California Her eyeshades may become popular here, however, inasmuch as imitation is the sincerest form of ftattery- Al though few persons have seen Mss Wills since her arrival in England the whole country is being induced 10 like
 
 paper writers who have seen her
 For some reason. or the lack of it. because she didn't arrive with chewing gum in her mouth, shouting say boy" and wearing her horn rimed spectacles- the British say she ''is far from being the typical American that may mean.
 ''She is indeed" writes on London sof anfr Razf- l. most sedate type of English girl Iwhose interest in sport is that of the spec tatOr."
 Among other things which have astonished the Britishers is the fact that she does not wear low heeled shoes when off the courts; that she dances, knows a thing or two about art and expresses admiration for the matched cottages of ''old England"
 Dry Enthusiasts Hit
 English temperance enthusiasts Whe have been denouncing the House of Commons for its lack of sobriety, even suggesting that the comfortable well stocked barroom within the parliament buildings should be abolished, don't know what they are talking about, said T. P. O'ConnOr, father of the house O'COnnor's years in service m parlla- ment may yet Outnumber the record Of Uncle Joe" Cannon in the American Congress. for while Uncle Joe" has re tired. ." T. F." who entered the house in 1880, is still going strong
 The present house of commons IS the soberest lot of British lawmakers and administrators he has ever seen, --Tay Jay" claims In olden days there were bibulOus giants in the land. men who took their two or three bottles of port daily and seemed to thrive upon it. he continued, but it is unnecessary to go back to the famous dialogue between Pitt and Dundas-'I can't see the speaker" said Pitt, and Dundas re marked, ''I see two speakers get the idea how thepoliticians who had never heard of such things as prohibi- tion carried on.
 In fact until recent years, according to O'ConnOr, most speakers after the dinner hour were as one proponent of the flowing bowl put it, much the bet ter for drink"
 Nowadays the temperance and pro hibitiOn movement IS growing within the house itself. Most of the young labor members believe temperance Is the salvation of the working classes and Premier Macdonald is a teetotaler, though not aggressively such an ab- stainer that he attempts to persuade anybody else to leave 1t alone