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It must have given readers of Mr. Lloyd George's speech on | Irish affairs in the House of Cam- mons an unaccustomed thrill to find bim quoting from the speeches of Chatham and the younger Pitt. How rarely do our groat Parliamentarians thus tink up the present with the past) Classical quotations disappeared from the Hoase with Mr. Gladstone, and now our debates new gradually shedding anything in the nature of history. I sup iposa I shall be told that Parlia

ment meets for business, writes the Dramatic Critic of the Times, and that historical allusion is un- business-like, if only for the rea- son that the majority of the casmbers couldn't understand it Only Prime Ministers, it seem, can venture 'on these flights. Well, it is something, at any rate, to get Chatham sid Pitt in a speech by Mr. Lloyd George. For that alone ba shall i have my vote the very next time; be wants it. What is more, I shall be tempted to try to wade through the nightly verɔiage of the House of Commons-perhaps the dreariest of all reading-on: the chance of coming across further references to the past, to the great men of old and our fathers that begat us. For they help to lighten a burden under: which we all labour the tyranny of the present, the pressure of the moment, the immediate, insistent claims of to-day sad to-morrow.

In this day and age when A big button of the fur holde fashion has free This tyranny in peculiarly felt originality, it demands a decidedly!

racge for this wrap coat in place, Grey in the theatre. Not for nothing fertile mind to create a complete felt lines the cuffs and collar and did Shakespeare call the players novelty. "the abstracts and brief chroni

shows at the edges of the cost. The voluminous-sleeved coat cles of the time." They seem to for example bas the new side-embroidered about the brim with The bat is of pearl-grey felt, live exclusively in the present pleated effect in the skirt. The and for the present. They pride coat, created by Harry Collins, is a band of grey silk buttons of the themselves on being "up to date."of hens cloth. They are, in Burke's phrase. "the

same shade.

The combination of henna and flies of summer." They lamp which edge the almost sleeves grey is one of the smartest colour Together, ubintelligently, un-are of grey squirrel.

alliances this season.

discriminatingly, the plays of the

past, from which their own

prang,as "costume plays." If they

By Marian Hale.

The shawl collar and coffs

GRANTED IVORCE FOR DESERTION.

Husband Deserts Her on European Trip.

bare to speak old verse, they try moments; be could be furieuse-"OIL KING'S" DAUGHTER to make it "natural" by turning it ment "literary into prose, or else they gabble it and Farquhar. Compare the Eng

in his dialogue}} as fast as they can, as though it|lish of Jobosan's Live-but were a stupid child's lesson, to Johnson is hardly a fair specimen be got over early and put out of-compare the English of Gold- the way. Very rarely can they smith's essays with the English be persuaded to speak is de-of his plays." There is a world of liberately and with enjoyment difference. And even to day. As it was originally written and though you cannot have easier, spoken. So it is with old prose. more natural English than you They "modernize "it, e it it down, got in Max or Mr. Strachey, it is often come to grief a long not our-spoken English,such as word, and put on a quiz:cal face, you get in Mr. Maugham or Mr. with the air of saying "Pless Milne. For these reasons, then, xcuse this sesquipedalian od I say it is a pity that we se dom 'ingo-I don't believe in it any have the chance of heating the more than you do." I think plays of the past on our stage. hey have a horror of seein›ng | I an not pining for more Shake

literary. Bless them, they are speara

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or more Elizabethans

As

daughter of John D Rockefeller. Mrs. Edith R McCormick, was granted a divorce from Mr. Harold F. McCormick, president of the International Harvester, Company, in the Superior Court at Chicago.

included in the decree, which was No provision for alimony was

Donald. signed by Judge Charles A. Me- Charges of desertion made against Mr. McCormick were admitted in bis answer.

settlement was made in court, an While no announcemeat of any

tween Mr. and Mrs. McCormick agreement has been reached be-

on the division of property, ac- of counsel for Mr. McCormick. cording to Clarence Darrow, one

Rumors of the impending action

in no danger! They are, in short. The fact is we ate too spt to te slaves of the present. So are identify the past with Shake- th managers, shrewd business speare and to forget that "there en who are there to cater for are others" Besides, much of his the general public, who know language is now archaic, and sbout as much of the past as they leads to a mental confusion of of the binomial theorem history with antiquarianism When a modern erue makes a for the other Elizabethans, I can- lip into the past it is hardly ever not help thinking that the PhanİX for the sake of that past, but is devoting a too exclusive atten-have been current ever since Mr. only to travesty it with some tion to them, their bombast and and Mrs. McCormick returned hideous slang and "topical their blood-lust illusions of the present.

In any case, from Europe last summer at the Ithe Phoenix is a quasi-private same time, but on different ships. till hver when I temember affair, and I am considering the Mrs. McCormick denied at that Mr. George Rotor's Louis welfare of the general playgoer, Quinze. Occasionally thay do

time that a divorce was con- ive the past its real value, all our solicitudes will himself ed. a Iscopic

I hope that precious object of templated. Mr. McCormick issu- and then what charm, what consider bis welfare by ri-iting he had moved his home to the statement that beauty The gem, to my taste. Mr. Fazan's Court revival of She country estate. They have three of The Fan of the Fayre at the Stoops to Conquer. Pavilion is that episode of 18th-prise is in the world of drama and Mathilde.

This enter-children, Harold F. jr, Muriel, century Venice. with

its what the quotations from Cha- When Mrs. McCormick return- voluptuousness and its fantasy-bam and Pitt were in Mr. Lloyded to this country after spending be Venice of Casacova. And George's speech. some of the best things in the present with the past, and with took up her residence, to the It links the eight years in Switzerland shej Chauve-Souris programme are out undue strain. Goldsmith is McCormick town house, while raminicences of the fifties!

quite "modern enough to be Mr. McCormick went to his! But it is, in the main, from understood" without a glossary estate at Lake Forest. Although books, and not from plays, that and yet antique enough to be they are jointly the backers and

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its satisfaction. It is to books, nor manners and speech, thus stim-Chicago Opers Association and to plays, that we have toga forourulating a bealtby historical attend the performances almost! enjoyment of the prose, or rather curiosity. The general playgoer, nightly, Mrs. McCormick bas the successive proses, that our dear man, will get as bearty occupied a box on o es de of the forefathers used an indispeus-laughter as he could hope for house and Mr. McCormick and his able preliminary to the full enjoy from the brightest revue of the daughter, Muriel-ou the other. ment of the prose that we

Miss Emms Buckel, formerly a The second witness for Mz use moment,,, and at the same time

MRS. MCCORMICK IN COURT. ourselves to-day. This is a pity will acquire (sabconsciously and

maid in the McCormick boósa McCormick was ME on at least two accounts.

Mrs. McCormick appeared in hold, was called to testify, and Beley, who said she had know First, without the slightest discomfort)'s open court with her lawyer and said she was with Mr McCor-the the spoken word is more effective, little retrospective insight. It was, two witnesses. Mr. McCormick mick in Zarich when Mr. Me-teen years, sad... knew of no McCormick for four more striking, more alive, than by the way, a happy thought of was..not present, although bis Cormick is said to have left bis reason for their aparation Bas the written. Secondly, there was Mr. Fegan's to issue with the three lawyers were there. Other wife. more difference in the past than programmes a reprint from Lloyd's wise

testified that she was with Mrs. the there is at present between the Evening Post, March 15, 1773, deserted.

court τούπι W&S "I' hive known the McMaCormick in Zarich, in 1918, written and the spoken language. giving

notice

Cormicks for several years,” she and saw the two together ́natik. of the We get from books a one-sided. first

"I have lived in Chicago since said, "although, I am not in their | May 27, when Mr. MoGirmiotisk performancean in 1897, Mrs. McCormick testified. employ now.. I was in Zurich alleged to have deserted his wif too literary notion of older teresting "document" ia itself On November 26, 1895, I was with Mrs. McCormick in 1918 Counsel for Mt. McQɔrmaiok prose styles. For spoken language and a secret solace to every married to Harold F. McCormick and saw her and Mc McCormick waived the right to crossi the appropriate medium is drams. theatrical critic who read it. It and lived with him continuously together. On May 27 be left her, the witness I suppose the terse English of comforted one, at any rate, with until May 27, 1918. At that time and I have since seen him a num After Bacon's Essays is as near the the reflection that newspaper we were in Zurich, Switzerland,ber of times in Zurich. spoken language as a writer of criticism can do better than that, when he left meth that time would chose to go. But even in these dagenerate days.

Where did you see him in if you want the actual speech of

Questioned by her counsel, Mr. Zurich ?" asked Mr. Cafting, man in that time you must listen to

McCormick said Mr. McCormick) *At the Botel Baur 80 12 JusticeShallow and Master Blend-

had not contributed to her up. Ses er. Defoe, Steals, and Bwift sized

-port stuce the date he is alleged to pretty closely at the colloquial caricaturist

have left style of their day. But for its ski-ing real colloquialisms you must go had gone to Congreve (in ble doguarded i water spor

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