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SIR GUY FLEETWOOD WILSON * SMACKED.*
Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson has lived long in the great world of the celebrates, and his charming "Letters to Somebody" is packed with anecdotes. He is a modest and genial "raconteur," but with it all one glimpses a strong personality and a man who knows his own mind. His book is full of gossip, but it is full also of the intimate history, of recent times and it has the value of authentic pen-portraits of some of the most famous politicians and soldiers of the last half-century.
Mrs. Norton, the heroine of Meredith's Diana of the Crossways, once gave him her beauty secret: "Ever since her girlhood she had; fter washing her face well
passed over it a sponge dipped in quite fresh milk into which she had reezed a perfectly fresh lemon, She did this just before whe got into bed, and she assured me that sho had never applied anything else to her face and neck throughout her life. In her case, at any rate, the result was marvellous."
His familiar glimpses are inimitabl Hery is eno of air investiture by Qaron' Victoria at Osborne. "We had a very indifferent laneleon and the investiture began, alpinst immediately afterwards. I was the very last, and by that time her Majesty was evidently tired and distinctly
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-When I knelt at her feet I could not for the life of me"avoid being completely absorbal by the pattern on the footatoes. It was covered by an feurial and terrible prasentment in worsted work of King thur. les muniel, with a lindingly blue ribion round its neck, and
west' warlet tongue ever seen in life or death. I can- not account for it, but that spaniel made me forget my drill. Instead of putting out my forearm at right angles to the Queen so that she might by her band on it for nie to kiss, I tried to take her in- gers between mine to enable in to kiss the back of her hand. The Queen instantly withdrew her hand and gave mine a little smack, not a pat, but a genuine angry little smack. I wonder if anyone else other than the royal children, ever got smacked B% beloved Queen Victoria: lod
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There is an excellent picture of Lund Kitchener during the Boer War. Sir Guy had been sent out to act as his financial adviser, and just occasionally the two dif But see eye. 19 eze. «
As a rule we found ourselves in entire agreement, but now and again we disagreers, On one such occasion he ard I had a serious altercation. We both lost our temps. He stalked up and down the room on voc side of his work-table railing at me in loud angry tones, and I did the same on the other side of the table,
While wo were hard at it Miler entered the room in that pussy cat fashion characteristic of him and stared at us in amazement. Kitchener spun round and said, Milner, here we are; threeclever men! Am I right or is Fleetwood Wilson right! You shall decide.
**Milner hesitated for a moment, and then said he thought my plan would work best.
"In a musicnt the cloud left Kit chener's face, and in a cheery and kindly. toue he said. All right, Fleetwood Wilson, go ahead. Do it your own way.
JAZZ BANDS CONDEMNED.
TO DISAPPEAR FROM PARIS..
A discussion on jazz bands, at a meeting of the Paris Municipal Council, has condemned those which now exist in Paris tu disappear one year hence. The discussion has nothing to do with the musical virtues or failings of jazz bands, but with the nationality of their personnel. Musicians in Paris have com- plained bitterly that, while a brown face and a banjo often proved a short cut to fortune, here there were thousands of skilled French musicians unable to gain, a living. Tho municipality therefore decrved that in restaurant and dancing establishments 10 per cent of the musicians must be Frenchmen.
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rant proprieters, would mean the diy solution of their jazz bands, which were chiedy composed of foreigners, with whom they had expensive contracts, and they appealed that the decree should be read na requiring 10 INSE cent of the personnel the whole evablishment to be Frenchmen in order that jazz bands could be retained. In this
connection it was stated that French musicians as a whole have not taken kindly to jazz music, and the
employment of foreigners in these consequently a necessity. During the discussion it was pointal out that there are now over three thousand musicians unemployed here, among them" artists who had won bigh distinctions at the Conservatoire. It was decided vltim- ately that for one year only the clause requiring that foreigners should
amount to only 10 per cent of the personnel -should apply to staffs as a whole, bat after that period it would.
dapply to individual orchestras. This means either that jazz will decline in Paris or that French musicians will take it up viere readily than they have done.
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