Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

many. It has Just been brought to light
that George Bernard Shaw wrote a
speech to be delivered by Sir Roger at
the latter's trial. It was burning re-
cital Of Ireland's ancient wrongs, which
Shaw claimed would have rung around
American woodland generated a tor
rent of sympathy which would have
saved Easements life. The prisoner at
the bar refused to avail himself OF
@. B. SIS assistance.
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Prime Minister Macdonald, who SAYS
he Is still journalist" spoke recently
at the unwilling of tablet bearing the
names of chairmen of lobby correspond
ents in the House of Commons in the
last 20 years. 81 am facing men in
reputation rests" said the premier. "The
lobby correspondent Is the delight OF
my heart. You give us lot of infor-
nation which would otherwise never
come our way. I am not at all sure that
] did not make great mistake in not
aspiring to remain one of you instead OF
turning my energies in another direc-
ton"
Londoners have just said good-by to
one Of their famous modern landmarks
the Hotel Cecil, in the Strand. The
big caravansary overlooking Thames
Embankment was in the heyday of its
glory IS or 80 years ago, when it was
American headquarters in this town. No
Yankee notable or tourist who could
anord 1t ever dreamed of staying any,
where except at the Cecil. Tod Sloan,
the American jockey, who was the SEN
sation Of British race courses at the
turn OF the century, and who introduced
-HfgrIlECAA rS
European tracks, lived like q rajah in q
suite at the Cecil, which nearly took in
whole floor. One Of Sloan's quips, on
still remembered occasion, while en-
pertaining q conviviai all-night party
after one Of his sensational triumphs at
Ascot. was to remove all the boots and
shoes standing outside of guests doors,
and replace mixed pairs The Cecil is
now 70 ne turned into vast ONCE build
ing for the Shell OIL Corporation. Hotel
Ceci once was political epithet-the
Liberals nickname for the Salisbury
cabinet because of the penchant of it's
head, the Marquis of Salisbury, to All
1t with kinsmen- Of the Cecil
tribe.
Let no man think that the crossword
puzzle in Great Britain either has fallen
into innocuous desuetude or is regarded
al uIlulSnuleu paSClIne. MOI only did
the sober and sedate London Times this
Winter succumb to the craze (still at
high tide In these Sea-girt isles) and an
nounce that 1t would henceforward pub
iish crossword puzzle every day. but
1t has now decided to print periodical
puzzle in Latin. In extenuation of the
crime, the Thunderer says in an edi-
torial: "One of the most remarkable re-
suits OF our experiment is the over
whelming evidence it has brought us
that the best brains in the country
ministers of the crown. provosts of coll
leges, kings counsel and the rest-all
engaged in the most arduous labor, find
these little intellectual games the very
thing to AL up odd moments. intervals,
Tor instance, between one engagement
and another, pauses which offer too
little time and too little CHI laacf Of men,
tai adjustment to make the reading of
book either possible or profitable. 1t
Is possible that the Latin crossword may
interest those who, from motives of the
highest respectability, have hitherto
Stunned the English"
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