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The Three Choirs Festival began in Hereford Cathedral' on Sunday, September 7, being participated in by the Choirs of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester. The conductor of the Festival this year was Dr. Percy C. Hull, the organist at Hereford Cathedral. Our picture was taken during the opening service, at which the Bishop of Hereford, the Right Rev. M. L. Smith, preached the sermon. (Times copyright).
WOMEN IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
LORD ASTOR STILL NOT DISCOURAGED.
Lord, Astor, like a knight of old -but a knight in modern dress and with modern ideas of political chivalry-gix times hus jousted with the House of Lords for women's rights, six times been de- feated, but always comes back smiling and ready to fight again. The American-born peer of Eng- land, whose Virginia-born wife, Lady Astor, was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons, has battled for years to secure for peercases in their own right the legal power to sit in the House of Lords..
Just now the champion of titled feminism is smarting under a re- cent defeat, but already he is planning another assault upon the smug forces of fossilized con- servatism.
Most Exclusive Club,
For the House of Lords is an old-fashioned body. You must be born into it or else be projected into it, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister and the con- sent of the King. Ayone who is the eldest son of a Lord, be- comes upon the death of his father a member of this hereditary Jegislative body. Among com- parative outsiders are the com- moners, in the recent past.
There are also distinguished generals or admirals.
"Regardless of whether the Lords are of ancient or modern vintage, the majority of them seem to be against women sitting in their august midst. There years ago they beat Lord Astor by only two votes. Recently they beat him by four votes. But before they did. so, they had to listen to some plain speaking from him and some, of his supporters.
Women Gain Other Rights. He said it was outmoded to con- tend that peeresses in their own right should not sit in that house
Lord Astor, left, appears to be determined that women shall sit in the House of Lords. He has fought for years to secure for peeresses their right to the legal power vested in that famous body. Lady Rhondda, right, is one of Lord Astor's ablest assistants in the fight.
in a day when every womun over on country and city councile and
21 had a vote in Great Britian; other 'important governmental when a woman could sit on the bodies. throne of the country as its heredi-
He caustically said that some of the "Noble Lords" seemed to re- gard their House as a sort of club, subject to the blackballing of those they did not desire to admit.
Lord Hanworth, in opposing Lord Astor, probably let the real cat out of the bag when he said if they were to grant admission to women on the same terms as men, by creating peerages for women in their
succession own right, the would be to the daughters and got only to their sons. Then the "die- hards" proceeded to kill the mea
sure.
Viscountess Rhonddu, one of the leaders in this fight for recogni- tion, when apprised of her latest defeat, shruggled her shoulders and said:
"It is just one more vote of some of the men to keep their club to themselves as long as possible. We will go right on fighting. Those who vote against us are voting against the trend of modern events and they know. it. The last two times they have won only by a few votes. The time will come when they will not win."
Dominions Take Lead,
Miss Florance Underwood secre- tary of the Women's Freedom League, said:
"There is no hope of convincing some of them before they die, but they will die off in time. It is they who make Britain lag behind; her progressive dominions. None of the latter excludes women from its upper legislative house. Sooner or later Britain will have to follow suit."
Besides Lady Rhondda, others. who will have a seat in the, House if it ever becomes a House of Lords and Ladies, are the Duchess of Fife, Countess Roberts, elder daughter of the late Field Marshal, Earl Roberts: Countess Cave, widow of an ex-Lord Chancellor; Viscountess Wolseley; a daughter of the late Field Marshal, Viscount Wolseley; and the Baronesses
An objection was raised that raty ruler; when fifteen women the women's point of view was were serving in the House of very different to that of men, but Commons, and one in the cabinet; that was one of the very reasons. Beaumont, Berkeley, Burton, Clif- when they were Lords Mayor of why their presence in the Houseton, Furnivall, Ravensdale, Went- important cities, and also servlaglof Lords would be an advantage. worth and Zouche,
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ORLOFF
MATTISSE
LABOUREUR
Maria Lani, the girl whom artists rave about, is shown at right.. Almost without ex- ception, painters and sculptors who have seen her are eager to paint her picture, or cap turo her features in marble. Above you see several artists' conception of Miss Lani. (These pictures by courtesy of the Galleries, London.)
A Mediocre Actress.
Miss Maria" Lani is the most
So many in fact that Jean Cock talked of woman in London to And what makes this case all teau, most modern of French day. And that despite the fact the mure, puzzling is that Miss poets, novelists, essayists, and not a celebrity in her pro-artists, after making sir separate that not one person in a million Lani
in London has seen her in person. fession. Born in Russia, this charcoal drawings of her, gave it Helen of Troy, heroine of young woman went on the stage, up in despair and wrote on his
Then she left a Bolshevik Russia last attempt:"
"It is impossible to draw this Homer's immortal poem, has often and moved to Germany, where she been celebrated as the woman was a pupil of the great Max woman's face."
How Cubist Saw Her.. whose lovely face launched a thou Reinhardt. She acted in Berlin sand ships. Meaning that for and she played roles in a few flms," The many artists, who attempl- love of ber, men fought and died But even then she did not eut ed.it, ran the whole gamut-from around the embattled walls of much ice. Four years ago she depicting her as very lovely to Troy, Miss Lani has a face that went to Paris and mingled with showing her as gaunt and haunt- ed and almost ugly. A cubist has launched fifty paintings" and the Bohemia artist set.
They went mad about her. painter even went off the deep and sculptures.
Every one of them--Matisse and painted her face as two blue There is nothing like it in the Picabia, famous modernist pain-blobs with one eye looking like a history of the art world. There ters; Braque and Jean Cocteau, pansy flower and the other like have often been one-man shows celebrated with their pencils; a black rifle target with a red spot where one painter or sculptor has/Chana Orloff and Bourdelle for the bulls-eye. exhibited 50 of his paintings or among sculptors, all begged her The whole fifty paintings and busts. There have been great re- to sit to them. From their point sculptures of this young, woman ligious figures of whom a myriad of view she was the heaven-sent were shipped en bloc to Berlin, carved model. She is petit and lithe, where they made a sensation. artists have painted ör imaginary figures. But there is with fine eyes, a sensitive mouth They are now on exhibition at the and a strong chin. The ordinary Leicester Galleries in London, no record of any living person de man would not call her beautiful where all the art cognescenti are intriguing the paint brushes or or pretty or handsome. But he paying pilgrimage. When the the chisels of famous artists who would admit that her face is show choses It will be sent to have met the subject, chatted with striking. It stands out from the Paris. It may eventually And Its her, danced with her, smoked ruck. And it expresses many way to New York, Boston and with her.
moods.
Chicago.