busy life which he leads at Hollywood remember that to-day is the hundredth anniversary of the death of George Colman' "the Younger," the son of George Colman "The Eider" who luce his sri was a dramatist and theatre mitnager and of whom Mr, Ronald Colman—bravely carrying on family editions in. the most modern form of thy dramatic art—is the descendant, The two George Colmans between them covered a whole century of English life for the father was born in''782 and the son died in 1836. Colman, "derived from the Latin columbus, supplied names. to 200 saints, dhe mast famous of whom. was Bishop of Lindisfarne in the seventh century. George Colman whose cen-onery it Is" to-day went from Westminster to Christ Church Oxford and King's College Aberdeen, finally {aking 10 is father's first love, the Jaw as @ student at Lincolns Ini, He first attracted more than casual attention with his opera Inkle and Yarico but his plays and. adaptations from the French are mostly. forgotten to-except perhaps "The. Helr-at-"w" which Won fame for the character of the -pedant Dr. Pangloss—Inspired "by "Voltalre's "Candide" produced in 1750, forty-nine years earller, "John Bul or an. Engl man's Fireside" brought. Colman his greatest success. in 1803; its interest to-day lies chiefly in the proof afforded of the sustained popularity of Dr. Arbuthnot's satirical name for the Englishman, tst given in 1712 in what was then called "Law aso Bottomless Pit" and subsequently labelled "The History of John Bull." Both Colmans successively had shares in and managed the Haymarket Theatre—the Elder having previously managed Covent Garden for seven years after a break with his friend and colleague David Garrick. Finan-fiat dimcuities and Titigation later forced the Younger George to manage the "Haymarket from the sanctuary of the King's Bench, Influence secured for him release and the royal apointment of Exon of Yeoman of the Guard, which dignity he' promptly sold. to the highest bidder. Mado an examiner of plays Colman Junior was the poacher turned gamekeeper. with vengeance, for he became a censor of the utmost severity which refused fo pass even such words as "angel," "providence" or "heaven." In*view of the broadness of some of his comedies and the coarseness of his light verse, his. blue-pencilling won for him the sharp criticism of his brother dramatists, Nevertheless he was popular enough and is said. to have specially shone by his witty conversation, He gold his share the Haymarket to his brother-in-law when he acquired official responsi bilities, He died at Brompton on this day in 1690, In inaugurating the new Dove Dunkerque train ferry on Oct. 13, a project on which 21,000,000 has been spent, MIN. Corbin, French! Ambassador to London, gave official blessing to a great advance in commiunleations, tis now possible to board a train at London and wake up in Paris for a fleet of three ships, capable of carrying 500 passengers each, 25 ears and a full train of a dozen sleeping coaches or 40 loaded foods wagons, has been constructed, for the Southern Railway seting in ce-operation with the French rally ways. The three ferry steamers are the Twickenham Ferry, Shepperton Ferry and Hampton Ferry Each 860 fect long with a beam of 63 feet with a speed of 15 knots. Not only there ample accommodation for Passengers with first and second class saloons and provision for transporting entire trains at a time with their passengers travelling in the same sleepers which they entered at London, but a motor garage able to carry 25'cars ata time makes it possible, through special shore arrangements, for driving on or off the ship on an {inclined plane from the upper deck Where the garage is situated. All this will help to minimize the fuss and bother which marks Channel erossings and will, incidentally, speed up the service,
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