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THE SVTitDAY' OEEfrONIAX tdRTLAND, JU5CE 4, 1922 NATIONAL CAPITALS CONTRIBUTE GOSSIP OFFICERS OF BRITISH NAVY H LIONS OF CAPITAL SOCIETY Admiral Sir William Pakenham and His Staff Monopolize Time and Attention of Exclusive Circles in Washington. FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF EX-KAISER'S ENTIRE IMMEDIATE FAMILY TAKEN SINCE 1912 ONLY FORMER MONARCH AND . - CROWN PRINCE, WHO ARE IN EXILE, ARE MISSING. , . COMMUNISTS STRIP JEWELS OFF RUSSIAN CHURCH IKONS Parishioners Watch Work With Calm Faces, and Even Nuns Point Out - ! ' Diamonds to Requisitioners. BY BETTY BAXTER. - (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonian.) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3. (Special.) If monopolies are against the law, then Vice-Admiral Sir William Pakenham, K. C. B., K. C, M. C, K. C, V. Q., commander-in-chief of the British North American and West Indian naval stations, and the other officers of his majesty's. ship Raleigh,- have broken every law, rule and regulation and everything akin thereto, this week, by monopolizing the time and attention of Washington society. They not only held the center of the social stage here, but occupied the whole stage with the exception of an inconspicuous corner of two, per- r. a ,'I don't believe I ever recall a more constant whirl of functions in honor of any "lion," not excepting the king of the Belgians or the Prince of Wales, than that which has marked the visit of these British naval of tloers. And even the sailors and the warrant officers of the Raleigh had their entertainments. The ship is due to depart next .Tuesday and I should think the officers would be glad to go; they must be dead tired. They have been entertained several times every afternoon and evening and late into the starry nights. They certainly received a Jolly warm welcome in Washington. Even the "Lions" here attending the Tacna-Arica conference have had "to take a back seat," to use a slang expression, while the Britishers are in the city. i The Raleigh steamed up the Poto mac about 11 o'clock Monday morning, having Bpent most of - Sunday at Quantlco, where G-eneral Smedler, United States Marine corps, had en tertained the officers. CI don't think any formal luncheon was given for them Monday but the admiral and some of the officers were dinner guests that evening of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds Hitt, who had been known to them all down at Ber muda, where they spent the greater part of last winter. In fact, most of those who entertained the Britishers, aside from members of the embassy staff, of course, were persons who had known them In Bermuda at one time or another last winter. Those officers who did not dine with the Hitts were divided between General and Mrs. Charles B. Drake and the commercial secretary of the British embassy and Mrs. John Joyce Broder lck, both of whom had dinner parties for them. Then they all go together later In the evening at the home of Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh to dance until the wee small hours of the morning. . Tuesday was a holiday Decoration day and everybody went down to the speedway In the afternoon for the dedication of the beautiful Lincoln memorial, pronounced by many as the loveliest work of art in this country. '.A place of vantage was allotted to the Raleigh's officers for the cere monies and they attended en bloc, but earlier in the day Mrs. J. Borden Harriman had Admiral Sir William and his officers all for luncheon and Immediately ofter the ceremonies they went to a reception given In tJieir honor by Mrs. Henry Getty Chil fcn, wife of the counsel of the British embassy. Mr. Chilton was conspicuous by his absence. He Is abroad just now but is due back here about June 1-0. BYom the Chlltons they rushed home to fix up a bit and "hurry on to the home of the secretary .of state and Mrs. Hughes for dinner. The Hughes Jcnew ,them all down In Bermuda BRITISH WOMEN RALLY TO SUPPORT OF LADY RHONDDA i Rejection of Woman's Claim to Seat in House of Lords Arouses Resent ment Among Advocates of Sex Equality, v LONDON, June Z. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The rejection of peeress, la her own right, to a seat in the house of lords has aroused Srldespread resentment among women advocates , of sex equality. Women fe&ve learned how to agitate effec tively since they got the vote and are determined not to let the matter rest fwhere It now stands. It Is not because she is a wealthy woman, a. brainy woman and a woman let title, too, that they are Tallying 4a the support of Lady Rhondda. It Xm because she stands for the principle that woman shall suffer no political disqualification just because sha is a, woman. . The contest is sure to be renewed !4t the earliest opportunity. There laxe a score or more of peeresses In heir own right in the United King dom and anyone of them might re ?hew the battle. By its adverse de cision the committee of privileges of th lords has merely reversed its declsion In Lady Rhondda's favor, made a few months ago. Meanwhile Tthls last decision affords a striking illustration of the famous saying that lawyersand the lords who made the decision are all lawyers can drive - "coach and four" through any act of parliament. For the sex disquali fication removal act, which the law yer lords .were supposed to interpret -Is so explicit it would seem to the Coverage layman that not even law yers could disagree as to Its mean ting. It says: "A person shall not be disquali fied by sex or marriage from the .exercise of any public function or Jfrom being appointed to or holding 'St-tty civil or judicial office or post, etc." .ine promoters oi me act staiea that their purpose was to provide from holding any office or doing any thing which she could layfully do -If she were a man, merely because '-she was a woman. 9 To the many recent complaints of ttin Ins, rf art Ira.CTir.. " purchases by Americans, Sir Robert Witt added another warning this veeK wnen ne presmea at the annual ! meeting of the National Art Collec- fAri fnurt nt th Rnrllnctnn Vinnea the society that at the present 1 moment more than one great master piece is in Imminent danger of leav ing; this country;' more than one ' masterpiece which no country, how ever poor, can afford to lose. We i are so impressed with the gravity of the position that we are prepared to support the chancellor of the exche- ' ouer In any method short of confis cation which will keep these master- ' pieces in the country." Sir Alfred Mond said that In these days it was necessary to enlist the pennies irom mu miuiuns. i ne ricn are too poor to be able to afford to do much," he added. "It Is not diffi cult to understand why there are so many publio spirited people la Amer where they went last winter to visit their daughter Elizabeth, who is not well and has been there for six months or so. From the Hughes they went back to Mrs. Harriman's dance. Some day, I should say! And they were all like that! Wednesday certainly was Just as busy. Frank B. Noyes had them all for a luncheon party and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff, who wintered in Ber muda, had them for afternoon tea. That evening the admiral acted as a host at dinner aboard the ship, while most -of his officers dined either with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter or Miss Anna Hamlin. Miss Hamlin was in Bermuda much of last winter and ia always a favorite with the attaches of the British embassy staff. The Leiters, of course, have British con nections through Mr. Letter's sisterB who married. Englishmen. The Lei ters generally entertain for almost all prominent natives of England who come to Washington for any length of time. All of the evening's functions ended up at the British embassy, where the British ambassador and Lady Geddes gave a large and brilliant reception. It was a magnificent affair and ended In dancing. The embassy was in gala array, with flowers everywhere, and the ornamental sergeant-major of dragoons in his scarlet coat and tall black fur busby and swagger stick standing like a wooden figure near the great entrance hall. You would think there would be nothing left of the Jack Tars by the time that was over, but not at all. They were all on hand the next day to lunch with the British ambassador, a stag party at the embassy. The ad miral dined that evening with the sec retary - of the embassy and Mrs. B. Leslie Craigie, while Miss Mildred Bromwell entertained a group of of ficers. Later they were all enter tained at a dance given by the bache lor attaches of the embassy staff at the house in Sixteenth street where most of the bachelor group reside. No, that dance was this evening. They danced some place every eve ning and I've gotten a bit mixed. Thursday evening Captain Sidney R, Bailey and Maurice Peterson, both of the embassy staff, gave them a dance. That was it! And Friday evening they were given a dance by Captain Ralston Holmes, in command of the president's yacht, the Mayflower, and Mrs. Holmes on the Mayflower. That was a particularly jolly party, but then all those Mayflower parties are. Before the dance Friday the ad miral gave another dinner aboard the Raleigh, anchored near the Mayflower down at the navy-yard. He lunched that day with Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Laughlin. ' But after all is said and done to night was the "big night," the dinner given by the ambassador and Lady Geddes iff celebration of the birthday anniversary of the king of England. That is always the event of the year at the embassy. There are always special decorations, special music, spe cial gold plate, special guests, special everything, and everybody in his "best bib and tucker." Finally the evening closed with the bachelors' dance I just told you about. No, they are not resting even to morrow. The admiral is giving a luncheon aboard ship and Mrs. Chilton Is giving a dinner and Leander Mc Cormick Goodhart of the embassy staff is "staging" a pidnic at the home of his parents in Maryland, a short motor trip out of Washington. What else happened this week? Well, not very much. ica prepared to pay large sums for beautiful works of art." . The high commissioner for Pales tine, Sir Herbert Samuel, at a recep--t!on given by the council of the Eng lish Zionist federation the other day, said he saw a new Palestine gradu ally taking shape. He said the pub lic security of the country, although by no means what It should be, had greatly improved during the past year. All this had been accomplished, he declared, without any grant from the Eritish exchequer. The civil admin istration of Palestine had paid its own way, while the expenditures on the garrison had, been cut in half and he confidently believed it would be further, greatly diminished next year. Sir Alfred Mond paid tribute to the high commissioner's work and said Palestine was one of the most peace ful spots of the world today. The efforts which the Jewish people had made, he declared, . had formed one of the most . remarkable records of colonization. The Dally Mail has introduced "sky writing" as a new means of adver tising. The writing is done by an airplane equipped with a smoke pro ducing device and an automatically controlled ejector. The first experiment was made over Epsom Downs on Derby day, and it was so successful that great pos sibilities are seen In the enterprise. The throngs along the race course first saw what appeared to be a long. slender, blackish cloud marring the otherwise clear sky. As they watched, hcwever, they saw the gradual form ation of the letter "D" against the sky. A moment later a second let' ter took shape. The crowds, mys tified as to how the letters were an- chored in space, used powerful glasses, with which they were just able to see the plane, a mere dot, emitting great clouds of smoke dur ing its skillfully maneuvered flight. The letters remained clearly de fined for more than five minutes. The nine letters composing the sign "Daily Mail had been spelled back wards, . so that they would face the crowds below in their proper posi tion. It took five minutes of a' care fully planned flight, during which millions of cubio feet of smoke were ejected. The smoke trail composing the let ters was ten miles long and the com pleted sigh was three' miles wide and two and one-half miles from the ground. It was visible over more tfcan 80 square miles of territory. , Wife Asserts Her Loyalty. LYNDHURST, N. J. Mrs. John N. Stein, testifying in her husband's suit for alienation of affections, declared she loved Edgar Kane, president of the Lyndhurst board of education, and had told him so. She said she spent tht money he gave her on her little daughter, Eve. Mrs. Stein tes tified that the coat she was wearing at tnc trial naa Deen purchased by Kane. Mrs. Kane, m former chorus girl, said she believed all the charges i against her busbaad were false. ' ' . . Copyright by Underwood) & Underwood. From left to right, front row Prince Alexander of Prussia, only child of Prince August Wllhelm, the kaiser's fourth son; Prince Hubertus, ex-crawn prince's third sont Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, the crown prince's "war baby," born 1915; the hereditary grand dnke of Mecklen-berg-Schwerin; Princess Cecllle of Prussia, ex-crown prince's younger war baby, born 1917. Second row Princess Henry of Prussia, kaiser's sister-in-law; Prince Wllhelm, ex-crown prince's eldest son; the ex-crown princess; Prince Louis-Ferdinand, the ex-crown prince's second son; the duchess of Brunswick, kaiser's only daughter; Princess Bitel-Frledrich of Prussia, wife of kaiser's second son. Third row The Countess von Ruppin, morganatic wife of Prince Oscars the kaiser's fifth son; Princess Adalbert of Prussia, wife of kaiser's third son; Prince Henry of Prussia, the kaiser's brother. Last row Prince, August-Wjlhelm of Prussia, kaiser's fourth son; Prince Adalbert of Prussia, kaiser's third son; Princess Henry XXXIII of Reuss, born Victoria Margarets of Prussia; Prince Elitel-Frledrich of Prussia, kaiser's second son; Princess FMedrich Sigismund of Prussia; Prince Christian of Schaumberg-Lippe; Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss; the ex-grand duke Friedrich-Frans of Mecklen-berg-Schwerln; Prince Friedrich-Sigismund of Prussia; prince Oscar of Prussia; Prince Friedrich of Prussia, fourth son of the ex-crown prince. ENTRANCED MEDIUM'S FINGER TIPS EXUDE VISCOUS LIQUID Professor and Colleagues Who Are Investigating Spiritualism and Trance Phenomena Have Made Some .Singular Discoveries. - yARIS. June 3. (By the Associat ' ed Press.) Charles Rlchet, pro fessor of the Institute of Prance and the Academy of Medicine, and his two colleagues appointed by the fac ulty of sciences of the 1 Sorbonne to investigate spiritualism and the trance phenomena of mediums are achieving some curious results. Their work thus far has been con fined to seances with Madame Blsson, medium well known among the spiritualists of western Europe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has had sittings with her. She Is one of . the few mediums reputed to exude viscous liquid from their finger tips under trance conditions. The professors had been told that this liquid, dripping onto a plain surface, took strange forms of faces. They have not had that result yet. but have made other singular discov eries. The medium's hands, while in a trance, were held at some distance from a table, and the liquid, dripping from the finger tips, they say, formed into slender sticks somewhat after the fashion of stalactites. When the union was established between the finger tips and the table by means of these slender rods, the medium could raise the table from the floor ap parently without the exertion of any force.- ' . . ' '. Some of these rods have been analyzed chemically, the professors report,- revealing that they contain no substances not contained in the human body. . ' The committee of professors, under Instructions from the faculty . of sciences, must - not disclose any de tails of their findings until, their Inquiry has been completed. , Official speed established a new record this week.', The Journal Offl- ciel published three peace treaties nearly three years after they were signed and ten months to a day after their ratification by parliament. . These were the treaties between the United States, Great Britain. Italy. AMERICAN POST NO. 1, PARIS, RECEIVES PAINTING BY FRENCH WAR MINISTRY FROM ' , MARSHAL FOCH. . l.m,,wiiiy ifffiiiimTro ii.ini- sis- ; Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. SCENE AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONIES. , PARIS, June 3. The above photograph shows the presentation speech being delivered by Marshal Foch of the symbolic canvas, "America," the work of M. Reni-Mel. official painter to the French minister of war, to the American Legion, post No. 1, in Paris. M ' The painting, an American soldier aiding a wounded French comrade (shown to the right) will hang on the wall of the post headquarters in Paris. , LJ.SJt.a Japan and Roumania, Jugo - Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia for the protec tion of minorities in the last three countries. The treaties were signed September 10, 1919; ratified July 29, 1921, and published May 29, 1922. . - . The keen disappointment expressed by all the French papers at the fail ure of Eugene Criqui , to knock out Joe, Fox in their recent bout has soured the French bantamweight champion against .. French boxing writers. Crlqui's recent victories have all been achieved by knockouts before the sixth round, and his fol lowers, sanguine that he would dis pose of Fox within the same limit, bet accordingly. "They'll soon expect me to put these fellows away before they get their gloves on," Criqui told the Associated Press correspondent. "They, wouldn't roast me If I had lost thelt&ti; And then they wonder why I dbn'-t fall all over myself getting into French rings." . - Criqui had been sitting up . three nights with his sick wife, who had Just undergone a severe operation, before entering the ring against Fox. Accompanied by his manager, Rob ert Eudeline,' he leaves for America the first week of July," where he will be under the management of Jack Kearns. The agreement was signed when Kearns and Jack Dempsey were here early last month, and it bore the proviso that Criqui should defeat Fox. The prevailing high price of gaso line has sharpened the wits of French automobile engineers and carburetor designers, with the result that the annual consumption contest at Lemans beat air records for mileage. The winner, one of the popular 10-horse-power automobiles carrying four passengers, covered 100 miles aH an average speed of 25 miles an hour on less than one and one-half gallons of gasoline and about two ounces of oil. The cost for each passenger worked man '- JUJUS.S !- J J. !--', 1JU.S A out at one-fourth of a cent a mile. . Scarcely less remarkable was the performance of an 18-horsepower sleeve-valve machine, which made more than 40 miles to the gallon, cov ering the course at an average speed of 47 miles an hour. The latter au tomobile, fitted with a sumptuous body, cost each passenger, carried In the perfection of comfort less than 1 fcent a mile. A small eight-horse power machine covered 7& miles on half a gallon of gasoline at an aver age speed of 24 miles an hour. - The production of a series of Wag nerian operas in Paris for the first time since the war has received, sur prising favor from the French public. The performances are under the direc tion of Tullio Serafln, and the com pany is composed of Italian singers. - News Writer' Week Cut Down to Four Days. Workers on London Newspaper Are : Given Shorter Work Period. LONDON. June 3. Lord Northcliffe ,has announced that hereafter the editors of the Evening News, which fnetudj jhi members of the staff who Would bprtermed "copy readers' on an American . newspaper, will work enlyfour days a week instead of five as heretofore. "Since 1894," said Lord Northcliffe when making the announcement, "the pace in evening newspaper production has been intensified and is going to increase still further. Wireless tele phony is beginning and is going to affect the publication of news." The occasion was the retirement of W. H. Evans, the editor-in-chief of the Evening News, who has been for 23 years on one or another of Lord Northcliffe's papers. Lord North cliffe gave him a banquet, presented him with a check for 10,000 and awarded him a pension of 2500 a year for the next ten years - and after wards, for the remainder of his life, a pension of 1000 a year. According to the testimony of newspaper men who have worked on both New York and London afternoon newspapers, the work on the latter Is much easier. The New York after noon papers use on an average twice as much news as do their London contemporaries and do much harder hustling to get it. -'A J--J-- Finding Needle in Haystack Outdone in Jerusalem. -, "Psychic" Wins Prise by Tracing; Object to Hiding Place. LONDON, June 3. To find a needle in a haystack is popularly sup posed to be a feat, so difficult that the odds against its successful accom plishment would be something like a million to one. Tet a feat that to the ordinary man would appear, If anything, still more difficult, has re cently been accomplished in Jerusa lem, according to newspapers pub lished there. It was nothing less than the finding of a needle hidden in Jerusalem, and with no clue to its whereabouts of which the five senses could take cognizance, except that It was hidden "somewhere" in the oity. This was done by Dr. Hanossen who claims to be possessed of some thing more than the usual five senses janri tn ha .nilnvMl . wit), a m-ot. j r(0UB psychic" faculty by means of i which he can read thoughts and find out things that cannot be discovered X' r cepted as the proof of his claim, and he was awarded 100. He found the needle within 25 minutes, excluding the time taken to reach the place of concealment. A committee was appointed to su pervise the test and to see that there was nothing of a- "put-up Job" about It. The committee consisted of sev eral Journalists, some policemen and an expert in nervous diseases. Dr. Hanossen was secured in a house and a guard placed over him. Then the members of the committee set forth in motor cars, one of them carrying the needle. Several streets of Jerusalem were traversed. Cars and drivers were changed on the -way and then, by a circu'tous rqute the lunatic saylum was reached. There behind a por trait of Sir Herbert Samuel the needle was hidden. Then the committee re turned to the house in which Dr. Hanossen had been left and released him. . , In a motor car, accompanied by the committee, he started out to- find the needle. In the course taken the driver followed his directions. After passing through many streets Dr. Hanossen left the car and proceeded on foot to the asylum. Arrived there, with hardly a moment's hesitation, he made for thie portrait and found the needle. ' The proceedings aroused enormous interest In .Jerusalem. A crowd of several thousand persons awaited the result of the test and cheered when Dr. Hanossen's success was an nounced. Painting Is Memorial to Son of Washerwoman. Work of Art In Chicago Church Is . Monument to Tub. CHICAGO, June 3. The fact that Chicago possesses a remarkable religious edifice duplicating in ap pearance the kaiser's church In Ber lin has been brought to notice by reports that, of late, the former Ger man emperor has strangely occupied himself almost altogether with eccle siastical concerns. The Chicago structure, built of reddish stone and with a lofty spire, St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church near Fullerton parkway, a short .distance west of Lincolrf park, is celebrated chiefly, not for the kaiser, but for a beautiful wall paint ing, the gift of a Chicago washer woman. Her son died in childhood. Many years later, long before . the world war, the washerwoman, all her years spent at the tub but never for getting a cherished ambition, gave her life savings to purchase the painting as a memorial for her boy. Days of Barter Return. A typewriter manufacturing com pany of Hartford, Conn., has sold a consingment of typewriters to the Russian goverment, receiving pay ment in the form of sealskins and sables. MSCOW, June S. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Hammer and chisels, wielded in a matter of tact manner by employes of the gov- I ernment committees for requisition of church treasures, have stripped in a few momenta tha n- overlays from ikons that took years to construct. Today these sheets of valuable metal ,r, hin ; v. on scales and melted down to be sold to neip feed Russia's famine suffer ers. Hera and ihcra thnn.h.,.i t 1 there have been disturbances in con- iicuiion who me requisitions, but the outstanding feature of the campaign rto transform these valnn Mm infn bread has been the calm manner In wnicn parishioners have watched the requisitions. Nuns Watch Work. The Associated Press correspond ent spent a morning with the Mos cow requisition committee, watching the work at an ancient church and a big convent in Moscow. At the latter a few nuns, solemn faced, but un resisting, ' watched the methodical work ;Of the requisitioners and even assisted then by pointing out the treasures containing genuine dia monds. Fifteen minutes ' work stripped from an ikon, all of the silver and gold, before which Ivan the Terrible once knelt, and left it a cracked oil painting. A few snips of the shears and a collar of tiny seed pearls, weighing perhaps six pounds, and which must have taken months of patient needlework to construct, was cut from another ikon and tossed into a box with sliver cups, dlamond studded crosses and communion cups of gold. Scores of hanging lamps of silver and hand-wrought enamel, which had been carefully tended and filled with oil and lighted for oen- ENGLISH CHURCHES TRAINING FOR 1923 LIQUOR OFFENSIVE Campaign Is to Be "Largely Educational" With Measure of Local Option as Immediate Objective. BY NORMAN H. MATSON. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonian.) LONDON, June 3. (Special Cable.) During the remainder of this year-the English churches are to be engaged in girding up their loins for a large scale liquor attack in 1923. The campaign is to be "largely educational." The Immediate objective is a measure of local option "as the straight road to a solution of the drink difficulty." Sentiment for stricter regulation of the liquor traffic and for complete prohibition Is undoubtedly growing stronger; although the wet press declares that the appeal of tne Wesleyan church for co-operation of other churches was an. admission of moral and financial failure of the former's dry campaign.. The significant facts are these: All through the winter the Wesleyan committee held big, successful tem perance meetings in all parts of the country. The biggest halls obtain able were used and they were nearly always packed to the doors. Some thing like half a million publications were sold.. The financial appeal was for $125,000 to be collected through a period of five years. In only eight months $60,000 has been collected. The request for co-operation has been welcomed by the temperance committee of each of the country's 14 principal religious denominations. The main objects of the campaign, according to Rev. Henry Carter, secretary of the Wesleyan committee, will be to present the modern scien tific indictment of alcohol, to rally local support to the agreed legislative programme of the council of churches, concentrating particularly on local option and to appeal especially to women to exercise their citisenship against the drink evil. The attempt will be to educate, not to dictate. To convince, not to coerce. The legislative side of the campaign will concentrate on four points of reform no sale of intoxicating liquor to persons under 18 years of age; local option for England and Wales, no sale of liquor on Sundays; and clubs supplying drinks to be licensed. The campaign begins in South Wales in the fall, "for the way Is clear there for an early effort." This looks like the . pounding in of the opening wedge; but the drinkers are not worrying noticeably no more than did they in the United States along about 1915. The cool manner in which Philip H. Rosenbach of Philadelphia bid $70,000 for the famous Daniel First-Folio Shakespeare at the sale of the Bur-det-Coutts library astonished London, including many British experts. But Rosenbach, who is bringing back to "Little Old Amurrlca," as the press parodied a little wryly, - the best treasure of the famous collection, including Dickens' manuscripts and the Hogarth Garrlck chair, is not worried. He is confident that there can be no future slump in the rare book market for the simple reason that one after another of the famous collections are going into museums and public libraries at the deaths of the collectors. Rare books, he thinks, must inevitably become scarcer and so more salable. The sale of the 600 unpublished Dickens letters. quotations from which appeared in this column some weeks ago, to O. R. Barrett, a Chi cago lawyer, raises an interesting point as to the copyright. They probably could not be published in England without the consent of the Baroness Burdet - Coutts' executors, but there is no obstacle to their publication in the United States. Dickens, it will be remembered, started the long fight against the book pirate of America, the suc cessful end of which Is only now. in sight. Rosenbach bought a less fine copy of the same edition as the Daniel Folio for $21,000, and a copy of the "poems" of 1640 for $7000. America now has mofe Shakespeare first edi tions than has England. It is safe to say, perhaps, that there are 79 of the plays in America and 76 in Eng land. Of a total of 301 copies of second and other quartos before 1623, more than half are also In the United States. . London movie houses continue1 to contend with bad business. If any of the blame may be put to the fact that English pictures made In Amer ica for exhibition here are not Eng lish enough and contain amusing and disillusioning mistakes In their ex teriors this is to be remedied, for both Goldwyn and Lasky are here with plans for shooting English ex teriors In England, and no doubt others have similar plana Iut one wonders why English exhibitors will show films that ax obviously, made Ituries, came down Just as quickly and were thrown in heaps on a wooden bench to be listed and weighed on the scales. Cems Fitted on Picture. Most of the wealth of tho church has been placed in the overlays of Ikons. The Greek Catholic church abhors statues, but permits pictures of the saints. Originally mere oil paintings, these ikons have been framed In gold or silver and then overlays of precious metal fitted over the canvas. Sometimes only the faces of the paintings can be Been under the gold and sliver. If the paint ing is that of ths Virgin, for ex ample, pearl necklaces are hung , about the overlay that covers the neck. In some cases garments heavy with Jewels are added. When all these decorations are torn away, there remains only an old oil paint ing. The work of the requisitioners was extremely careful and methodical. Though probably communist them selves, and therefore scorning the customs of the orthodox, they doffed their hats upon entering the church. They did not enter the sanctuary or rother holy rooms, but permitted the priest, or some other person desig nated by the faithful to hand out to them the valuable articles from these places. Historic Objects Saved. Experts from the. government mu seums accompanied the requisition era, and if they discovered objects of great historical value there were pro nounced "museum articles," and not sold but removed to the museums or permitted fo remain in ths churches. At the Nikltski convent one ikon which the nuns particularly valued was not taken, as the parishioners agreed to pay over to the famine fund its value in silver coin. to appeal to only American audiences. The other day I witnessed one of the saddest spectacles imaginable. An American film of a "comic" ball game being unreeled before the wondering eyes of a British audi ence. The signals falling, the catcher dispatched an "A. D. T." with a tele gram to the pitcher, the batter going elaborately to sleep. The man next to me chewed his moustache in a violent , effort to understand; but when he saw the runner steal third because the first and second basemen were occupied with throwing dice, he collapsed in his bewilderment and made motions with his shoulders, as if weeping abandonedly. It was an uncomfortable and saddening experi ence, and tliere was nothing to be done about it except get up and make a long speech, working up through a history of the game to a discourse of the psychology of fans, and so " the film was funny, but nobody would have appreciated : such an effort. , . - - - Henry King Signs to Direct Richard Barthelmess. Series of Films Starring Pauline Fredericks Recently Completed. LONDON, June 3. Economy is no longer to be the keynote of court functions at Buckingham palace. No more "economy courts," as they were called, are to be held. These were established by their majesties after the war to set fashionable society a much-needed example In curbing ex travagance. The seal of royal ap proval has now again been bestowed on court trains. Indeed, no woman can be presented at court whp does not wear them. Of course, as a man the lord chamberlain cannot presume to be an expert on fashionable femi- ' nine dress, but It is one of his many official duties to lay down the rules and regulations to which women must conform at the most exalted of court functions. That is one of the things for which he is paid $15,000 a year. He has to be a peer, besides, to qualify for the exalted office, which is accounted among the political plums that the prime minister has to give away. The present lord chamberlain is in the ton class of the peerage. He is the duke of Athell. By restoring the court train he has earned the blessings of the fashion able dressmakers. But they would have lengthened their blessings If be had lengthened the trains. Before the war three yards was their regulation length, while Queen Victoria didn't consider four yards too long. By the new regulations they need be only two yards in length and should not extend more than 19 inches from the heel of the wearer when standing. To walk backward before royalty in a train three yards long without getting tangled up in it imposes a se vere tax on the agility and skill of not a few socially ambitious women. Queen Mary is a very kind woman and she would naturally wish to spare her sex making exhibitions of them selves. Hence she was in favor of the shorter lengths for trains. Sixteen-Foot Whiskers Will Feature Celebration. North Dakotan Who Hasn't Shaved for 44 Years to Participate. WAHPEION, -N. D., June 3. Though civic pride has prompt ed the male population of Sacramento. Cal., to go unshaven in preparation for the "days of '49" celebration, h goodly share of the "local color' promises to obe provided by a retireu farmer pf North Dakota. For Hans N. Langseth, 75-year-oln resident of this county, is going out California way to show the "boys" a beard that is a beard, as he puts it. By actual measurement his is sever,i: inches more than 16 feet. A score of years ago Langseth traveling with a sideshow. But th public refused to believe his beard was real. "The same old bunk," they said, and passed up his tent So b went back to farming. Langseth was born in Norway. He lived in Iowa from 1867 to 1893, and then moved to Clay county, Minne sota, where he lived two years be fore settling in this state. Not since he was 29 years old has Langseth shaved. Then he noticed his beard grew remarkably fast, so he decided to see what length it would attain. It's too long now for convenience, but he carries It tuckeif away in a sack attached to the insidi oi him waistcoat