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fellow-mortals, backed by an obvious talent of no mean kind, Mr. Cobb here, as elsewhere, betrays a weakness for tailor-made themes and a carelessness of execution which may be traced to his newspaper days. Two of the stories—“A Coyote in Central Park” and “The Power of the Press”—are so honeycombed with sentimentality that it seems that some unkind fate is constantly making sure that these things turn out as they do. They had to be ordered. The best story in the book—“A Letter to a Relative”—makes one wish Mr. Cobb were a more conscientious craftsman, considering his material more carefully before his hand begins to apply skill and tools. Odd Wedding Arch An arch of swords for the soldier and his bride to march under after the wedding ceremony is as old as the hills. England goes in for a new wrinkle. At the wedding of the secretary of a golf club recently, the bride and groom marched under an arch of drivers, brassies, cleeks, putters, and mallets. America on the Sea More than half the gross commercial ship tonnage under the American flag, was privately owned on April 1, 1926. Thirty-one additional ships passed from Government ownership into private hands during the first quarter of the year, their tonnage being 131,512. These transfers brought the tonnage of the privately-owned merchant marine to 5,622,470, of which more than 92 percent was in active operation on April 1. The Government-owned fleet on April 1 was 1,062 ships, aggregating 6,306,215 tons as compared to 1,118 ships totalling 5,506,670 tons on January 1. About one-third of the Shipping Board fleet is in active service. PEPPER AND SALT A CASE OF LAWINESS We often hear of persons who are busy themselves by codifying laws for us to read; Who gather musty law-books from the aged and dusty shelves, And pore through them in avaricious greed. But we’ve too many laws! that is a fact you won’t dispute Unless you are a lawyer; even so, The lawyers often cannot find the law that will just suit The case, when into court they have to go.
hands during the first quarter of the year, their tonnage being 131,512. These transfers brought the tonnage of the privately-owned merchant marine to 5,622,470, of which more than 92 percent was in active operation on April 1. The Government-owned fleet on April 1 was 1,062 ships, aggregating 6,306,215 tons as compared to 1,118 ships totalling 5,506,670 tons on January 1. About one-third of the Shipping Board fleet is in active service. PEPPER AND SALT A CASE OF LAWINESS We often hear of persons who are busy themselves by codifying laws for us to read; Who gather musty law-books from the aged and dusty shelves, And pore through them in avaricious greed. But we’ve too many laws! that is a fact you won’t dispute Unless you are a lawyer; even so, The lawyers often cannot find the law that will just suit The case, when into court they have to go. If all the busy persons who would codify the laws Desire that they will be popular will be By publishing a book designed to keep us free from flaws, I suggest that they do take a tip from me. And search the mossy archives—where they are I do not know— For all unwritten laws that people quote, We might then know what we’re doing, in so far as statutes go— But I fear the book would be too big to tote. James G. Confess. A long-haired girl for a leading part, the Gazetteonders whether he wanted the long-haired star—a cornet?—more than he wanted the publicity. "In principle," remarks this paper, "one must be suspicious of American stories even when they are true." MAY FAITH, What can this be? Two little shoes, companions underneath the sycamore tree. And oh! the grass is emerald green, And oh! the troubadours are sweet; But where is the fruit, she will return To cover up her feet! Let be, This sorcery; the world would say That blossoming lay Beneath the Hawthorn tree! And oh! her feet are far and swift And white beneath the moon; But where is her avenue? She comes again To find
For all unwritten laws that people quote, We might then know what we’re doing, in so far as statutes go— But I fear the book would be too big to tote. James G. Confess. A long-haired girl for a leading part, the Gazetteonders whether he wanted the long-haired star—a cornet?—more than he wanted the publicity. "In principle," remarks this paper, "one must be suspicious of American stories even when they are true." MAY FAITH, What can this be? Two little shoes, companions underneath the sycamore tree. And oh! the grass is emerald green, And oh! the troubadours are sweet; But where is the fruit, she will return To cover up her feet! Let be, This sorcery; the world would say That blossoming lay Beneath the Hawthorn tree! And oh! her feet are far and swift And white beneath the moon; But where is her avenue? She comes again To find her little shoes! —Margaret Thorpe Fitzgerald. A FAMOUS CARTOON IN THE MAKING Homer Davenport was one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the United States during the late 19th Century and the early 20th. Century. The power of his pencil, always sharp, had struck fear into many a political campaigner. It had struck fear into Mark Hanna, the great boss, when Davenport fitted the Ohio dictator into a suit covered with dollar marks and pictured President McKinley toddling along in the wake of the money power which Hanna represented. That was regarded as Davenport’s finest piece of work until Theodore Roosevelt waged his campaign for the Presidency in 1904. At that time, the cartoonist renounced the Democratic Party and decided to back the Progressive candidate. He signed a $25,000 contract with the Evening Mail in New York, and then went out to visit Roosevelt at his Long Island home. The Rough Rider was glad to see him. He invited him to fell some trees on the estate, to box a round or two, to run a race, and finally to top off the afternoon with a five-mile walk. All the while Roosevelt was talking about this and that. When Davenport
It had struck fear into Mark Hanna, the great boss, when Davenport fitted the Ohio dictator into a suit covered with dollar marks and pictured President McKinley toddling along in the wake of the money power which Hanna represented. That was regarded as Davenport’s finest piece of work until Theodore Roosevelt waged his campaign for the Presidency in 1904. At that time, the cartoonist renounced the Democratic Party and decided to back the Progressive candidate. He signed a $25,000 contract with the Evening Mail in New York, and then went out to visit Roosevelt at his Long Island home. The Rough Rider was glad to see him. He invited him to fell some trees on the estate, to box a round or two, to run a race, and finally to top off the afternoon with a five-mile walk. All the while Roosevelt was talking about this and that. When Davenport left, he admitted frankly to William Loeb, Jr., Roosevelt’s secretary, that he had never been so impressed by a man in his life. "I wish he would talk to the people the way he talked to me," remarked the cartoonist. "He will and the people will listen," answered the secretary, adding, with the precaution of an old campaigner, "but like all independent, self-reliant men, he has a full set of enemies. Don't forget that." "Enemies? Of course. But so far as I am concerned, he’s good enough for me!" It was the cartoonist speaking again. He and the secretary were driving towards the station whence the train would take Davenport back to New York. There was a long silence, and the cartoonist got out his pencil and sharpened it. It was a habit of his whenever he lapsed into thought. Finally, he repeated the phrase: "He's good enough for me!" It was the title he was destined to give that same night to his opening cartoon in the Roosevelt campaign, a drawing since come to be acknowledged as the greatest vote-making cartoon in all America’s political history. He sat up all night to draw it. The next day it appeared
adding, with the precaution of an old campaigner, "but like all independent, self-reliant men, he has a full set of enemies. Don't forget that." "Enemies? Of course. But so far as I am concerned, he’s good enough for me!" It was the cartoonist speaking again. He and the secretary were driving towards the station whence the train would take Davenport back to New York. There was a long silence, and the cartoonist got out his pencil and sharpened it. It was a habit of his whenever he lapsed into thought. Finally, he repeated the phrase: "He's good enough for me!" It was the title he was destined to give that same night to his opening cartoon in the Roosevelt campaign, a drawing since come to be acknowledged as the greatest vote-making cartoon in all America’s political history. He sat up all night to draw it. The next day it appeared on the front page of the Evening Mail. It showed a full-length picture of Uncle Sam standing behind Roosevelt, with his left hand resting affectionately on the shoulder of the candidate. It required nothing of one’s imagination. The legend ran: "He’s Good Enough For Me." That line appealed to all the people. It had come to him while driving to the station following his visit with the Rough Rider. The original of that cartoon now hangs in the old home in East Twenty-Ninth Street, New York, where the President was born. INTERESTING LITTLE SHOPS Dressmakers: Maurice & Marthe Dressmakers are showing to Foreign Buyers their new SUMMER MODELS It is the Smartest Collection. 61 Rue des Petits-Champs, PARIS. Near Avenue de l’Opéra. DRESSES HELLEN With her Sport, Afternoon and Evening dresses at special prices. MODELS—the latest styles. 30 RUE VIGNON (Near Madeleine) Telephone: Louvre 43-58. HANDBAGS GOUT DU JOUR MANUFACTURER OF ARTISTIC STEEL BEADED BAGS AUBUSSON PETIT POINT TAPESTRIES. GIFTS, DOLLS, etc., (Awarded prize Ville de Paris) 12 rue Cambon. — Phone: Central 53-10. 5 Rue du Maréchal-Pétain, NICE (A.M.) MODES GLADYS SLAUGHTER 137 Boulevard Raspail, PARIS READY-TO-WEAR FROCKS, COATS, HATS Moderate Prices; 5 Telephone: Fleurs 14-00. THE EVENING PAPER
the people. It had come to him while driving to the station following his visit with the Rough Rider. The original of that cartoon now hangs in the old home in East Twenty-Ninth Street, New York, where the President was born. INTERESTING LITTLE SHOPS Dressmakers: Maurice & Marthe Dressmakers are showing to Foreign Buyers their new SUMMER MODELS It is the Smartest Collection. 61 Rue des Petits-Champs, PARIS. Near Avenue de l’Opéra. DRESSES HELLEN With her Sport, Afternoon and Evening dresses at special prices. MODELS—the latest styles. 30 RUE VIGNON (Near Madeleine) Telephone: Louvre 43-58. HANDBAGS GOUT DU JOUR MANUFACTURER OF ARTISTIC STEEL BEADED BAGS AUBUSSON PETIT POINT TAPESTRIES. GIFTS, DOLLS, etc., (Awarded prize Ville de Paris) 12 rue Cambon. — Phone: Central 53-10. 5 Rue du Maréchal-Pétain, NICE (A.M.) MODES GLADYS SLAUGHTER 137 Boulevard Raspail, PARIS READY-TO-WEAR FROCKS, COATS, HATS Moderate Prices; 5 Telephone: Fleurs 14-00. THE EVENING PAPER OF PARIS THE PARIS TIMES—No. 708 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS THE WOMAN OF THE DAY A bust of Signor Mussolini, dressed in civilian garb, will adorn banknotes of various denominations which are soon to be issued by the Bank of Italy. Mgr. Enrico Reina y Casanova, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, will represent the Church in Spain at the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Chicago next month. After a conference with Senor Yanguas, the foreign Minister, it has been decided that Mgr. Reina shall be accompanied by a representative of the Spanish foreign Office. Miss Matilda Houghton, daughter of the American Ambassador in London, is recovering from the injuries which she received in a recent fall from her horse. Mlle. Cécile Sorel, the celebrated actress of the Comédie-Française, is married today to Comte Guillaume de Ségur. The ceremony is taking place in a suburb of Marseilles. The marriage of Mlle. Sorel has been rumored several times before. Miss Virginia Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wallace, has just been married to Mr. E. R. Stettinius, son of the late partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company. The ceremony was held at the
Primate of Spain, will represent the Church in Spain at the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Chicago next month. After a conference with Senor Yanguas, the foreign Minister, it has been decided that Mgr. Reina shall be accompanied by a representative of the Spanish foreign Office. Miss Matilda Houghton, daughter of the American Ambassador in London, is recovering from the injuries which she received in a recent fall from her horse. Mlle. Cécile Sorel, the celebrated actress of the Comédie-Française, is married today to Comte Guillaume de Ségur. The ceremony is taking place in a suburb of Marseilles. The marriage of Mlle. Sorel has been rumored several times before. Miss Virginia Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wallace, has just been married to Mr. E. R. Stettinius, son of the late partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company. The ceremony was held at the home of the bride’s parents at Hampstead, Virginia. A marriage of interest was celebrated yesterday in Paris at the Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot, when Miss Lawton Filer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Filer, of Burlingame, California, became Countess Pegenhardt Wurmbrand. The bride’s parents and the mother of the Count attended the ceremony. Others present were the American Ambassador and the Austrian and Swedish Ministers to France, former Senator James D. Phelan, of California; Mr. and Mrs. George G. Cameron, Mrs. Osgood Pell, Mr. Shane Leslie and Captain and Mrs. Power Symonds. From Chicago is announced the engagement of Miss Adelaide Lyman Pierce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls Pierce, to Mr. Samuel Incall, son of the financier and president of numerous public utilities. The illness of Mrs. Carrie Chapman may prevent her from attending the Congress of the International Alliance for Woman Suffrage which opens in Paris on May 30. She is the past President and present honorary resident of the organization. Mrs. Carr is sixty-seven years old. The general assembly of the Life Saving Society of France was held yesterday in the amphitheater of the Paris Sorbonne. M. Dal Piaz, President of the Board of Directors of French
the ceremony. Others present were the American Ambassador and the Austrian and Swedish Ministers to France, former Senator James D. Phelan, of California; Mr. and Mrs. George G. Cameron, Mrs. Osgood Pell, Mr. Shane Leslie and Captain and Mrs. Power Symonds. From Chicago is announced the engagement of Miss Adelaide Lyman Pierce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls Pierce, to Mr. Samuel Incall, son of the financier and president of numerous public utilities. The illness of Mrs. Carrie Chapman may prevent her from attending the Congress of the International Alliance for Woman Suffrage which opens in Paris on May 30. She is the past President and present honorary resident of the organization. Mrs. Carr is sixty-seven years old. The general assembly of the Life Saving Society of France was held yesterday in the amphitheater of the Paris Sorbonne. M. Dal Piaz, President of the Board of Directors of French Line, presided in the absence of Admiral Touchard, detained by sickness. The President of the Republic and the Ministry of Marine were represented. The life-savers were represented by delegates from the various stations. Nearly a score were decorated with the Légion of Honour. Miss Margaret Lohengrin, who has lately taken a studio in Paris, which she will make the seat of her activities for about a year, formerly a pupil of the late Joseph Pennell, has had the opportunity of studying both the man and his work. The result of her study is a very intimate and well-written article to be printed soon illustrated with her own sketches. Gloom was cast over the United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday by the death of Cadet Hamilton S. Hawkins, jr., who died from a fracture of the skull sustained during a practice polo game. He was the son of Colonel Hawkins, of the United States Cavalry, and he would have graduated next month. He will be buried in the Academy cemetery, beside the grave of his grandfather, General Hamilton S. Hawkins, Commander of the Academy from 1888 to 1893. At the Hotels. Sir John Davies is at the Hôtel Grillon,
a studio in Paris, which she will make the seat of her activities for about a year, formerly a pupil of the late Joseph Pennell, has had the opportunity of studying both the man and his work. The result of her study is a very intimate and well-written article to be printed soon illustrated with her own sketches. Gloom was cast over the United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday by the death of Cadet Hamilton S. Hawkins, jr., who died from a fracture of the skull sustained during a practice polo game. He was the son of Colonel Hawkins, of the United States Cavalry, and he would have graduated next month. He will be buried in the Academy cemetery, beside the grave of his grandfather, General Hamilton S. Hawkins, Commander of the Academy from 1888 to 1893. At the Hotels. Sir John Davies is at the Hôtel Grillon, Paris. Mr. Henry Orton, of Cincinnati, is at the Hôtel Bristol, Paris. Mrs. Melchior Diepenbrook, of Sacramento, California, is at the Hôtel Regina, Paris. Miss Elizabeth Stewart, of Omaha, Nebraska, is at the Hôtel Wagram, Paris. Mr. A. Taylor, of Evanston, Illinois, is at the Hôtel Brighton, Paris. VICE-ADMIRAL WELLES WILL SPEAK AT BELLEAU Vice-Admiral Roger Welles, commanding the American Fleet in European Waters, will deliver the principal address on Memorial Day at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery at Belleau. The majority of the 2,254 graves at this cemetery are of Marines. The Graves Decoration Committee has named Lieutenant Colonel William Brackett, Marine Corps, retired, chairman in charge of the ceremonies at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery. Vice-Admiral Welles was teaching mathematics at Annapolis when Lieutenant Colonel Brackett was a cadet there. Short addresses at this cemetery will be made also by M. Very, Mayor of Belleau; Abbot Combes, curé of Belleau; M. Bègue, Prefect of the Aisne, and the Rev. Julian S., Wadsworth, of the Methodist Memorial at Château-Thierry. The invocation will be given by the Rev. G. Vernier, pastor of the American Memorial French Reformed Church at Belleau. A squad of marines from the Pittsburgh, with colors and band, will take part
WILL SPEAK AT BELLEAU Vice-Admiral Roger Welles, commanding the American Fleet in European Waters, will deliver the principal address on Memorial Day at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery at Belleau. The majority of the 2,254 graves at this cemetery are of Marines. The Graves Decoration Committee has named Lieutenant Colonel William Brackett, Marine Corps, retired, chairman in charge of the ceremonies at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery. Vice-Admiral Welles was teaching mathematics at Annapolis when Lieutenant Colonel Brackett was a cadet there. Short addresses at this cemetery will be made also by M. Very, Mayor of Belleau; Abbot Combes, curé of Belleau; M. Bègue, Prefect of the Aisne, and the Rev. Julian S., Wadsworth, of the Methodist Memorial at Château-Thierry. The invocation will be given by the Rev. G. Vernier, pastor of the American Memorial French Reformed Church at Belleau. A squad of marines from the Pittsburgh, with colors and band, will take part in the ceremony at the only military cemetery in France where comrades of their Service are buried. Touring agencies are making arrangements to take a large number of Americans to Belleau by motor on May 30. MAURICE DAVID, 10, faubourg Poissonnière. Specialist in made-to-measure dresses. (Announcement.) MME. GEORGETTE LEBLANC It is difficult to say in what capacity Mme. Georgette Leblanc is best known, whether it is as a singer or a personality. It is admitted that she has developed both to a fine degree. Her contralto voice has been called “golden” by many critics, while her personality has fascinated the greatest artists, composers, and authors of her day. Tonight an audience at the Salle Comédie in Paris will have an opportunity to judge for itself. It will hear something of her beautiful voice and experience something of her interesting personality. The audience will note that when she sings it will be the mélodies of Debussy, Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Al Jolson. When she recites poetry, it will be from the works of such moderns as Apollinaire, Cocteau, and Yvan Goll. She will complete her program with an autobiographical sketch giving her impressions of America. “Rather an extraordinary concert!”
is difficult to say in what capacity Mme. Georgette Leblanc is best known, whether it is as a singer or a personality. It is admitted that she has developed both to a fine degree. Her contralto voice has been called “golden” by many critics, while her personality has fascinated the greatest artists, composers, and authors of her day. Tonight an audience at the Salle Comédie in Paris will have an opportunity to judge for itself. It will hear something of her beautiful voice and experience something of her interesting personality. The audience will note that when she sings it will be the mélodies of Debussy, Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Al Jolson. When she recites poetry, it will be from the works of such moderns as Apollinaire, Cocteau, and Yvan Goll. She will complete her program with an autobiographical sketch giving her impressions of America. “Rather an extraordinary concert!” one might say, but Mme. Georgette Leblanc is an extraordinary woman. To understand her, one must know her career. She was born in Rouen (Seine-Inférieure) of an Italian father and a French mother, a descendant of Norman nobility, Blanche de Brohys. The father had made his way from Venice to Paris playing the violin. When he married, he renounced music as a failure and went into commerce. He was determined that none of his children should follow him in art. He did not reckon, however, with the character of his daughter. She met Massenet and Bernhardt and both encouraged her to sing. They even argued with her father, but he was adamant. Early Debut. Evading parental authority, she presented herself at the age of eighteen before the powers at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She sang for them and told them that she had had dramatic experience, even though she had not, and the result of her audacity was a five-year contract. She made her debut in 1905 in Bruneau’s “L’Attaque du Moulin” and a month later was singing the title role in “Sapho.” She had been with the Opéra-Comique only six months when she learned that she could. Go to