Apropos of things bygone and famous T went yesterday to see "The Importance of Being Earnest." tt is perfectly staged in the style of the early nineties and perfectly "acted. edith Evans's "Lady Bracknell" is a thing to Fen rmber all one's life, She has that utter naturalness on the stage Charles Hawtrey was nearly the same supreme command of the art which conceals art Tu the Second "and third acts Miss Gwen wore one of the wee _and a skirt, a cream th Mowers, and one thinks of the power and at "ence saut buller= nal the still greater of the Germans scattering mines all over it, one has no words to express one's admiration for the heroism of these thousands of unknown merchant sailors, One of the most moving of recent stories of escape from the sea is that of 2 young seaman who, with eight others, of away on a raft after his ship had been mined and sunk. One one he saw them die of exposure on, in their raging thirst, drink the seawarer which inevitably brings madness and death. 'Twice they saw a ship and thought they had' been sighted, but only to sce her steam away. This young man, the sole survivor, elunie to the raft for days. When at Insta vessel sighted him, was too weak {0 signal. In his own words, all he could do was to whisper continually "Please God, tet them soe me."
"Yet no doubt ax soon as he ts. ft] a yrain, back he will go to the ships.
International Committee boi 'A. Lowy, J
Tovelier than now Old Stagers Resurrected Some weeks ayo there article In "The mes" 6 of Charlotte Yous result that there a hue filer her books, and second-hand shapy reaped a fat" profit out dusty volumes buried in the back of their. shops and hitherto considered tmsaleable, In fact. she could tell a cwt. story and her historical ilk were remarkably careful and 'SUM, une would hardly: 1 to the last of modern readers, Now life of Marie Corelli own witt the review suppose But, und here's the rub, they longed to the London of 40'years axe, not of today. Beneath the glitter of this brilliant play there 2 berlain sadness. It breathed atmosphere of a London that.
dead as. the dodo; when people "Were as sure of" them as England. shilling in the principle of plundering everyone who! was $0, to own a little money had sxalted into a public virtue: and when there were Heeat follo who ted the country Meal of trepidations politicians who follow the mob. We can enjoy with-onl st pang the picture of the times iv School for Scandal": it is too remote to affect us. But "The Importance of Being Earnest quite otherwise. We can still hear the clang of the gates that have shut ott of that elysian world. she was not merely a fvery une of Whose books ay 1000 ak iL appeared would like Carney Grains "Little Choir Bos" welling now thousands and wide throughout the She attracted such great and div people as Queen Victoria, the Pei of Wates, Wwo hours with her sat patiently. in the carriage, O'Connor, Swinburne and the Dea of Westminster, Where was th literary' instinct of these, for the most art, scholarly people? She had a Vivid. imagination, and. some of her dens deserved better handling. "The Sorrows of Satan" for ins! which Satan continually: stai remain "Hes mately raised driven down by everyone who resists oF yields to his temp be the subject of a sre saying that her novels jousness. and bush have "Yet one might query that judgment. Hannah More "foundering about like a hue eons ina sea of senti~ ment"; Martin Tupper, the proverbial philosopher; Mrs." Young and her "Night Thoiwhts"; Florence Barelay's "Rosary"; and even in these superior modern days, quite gallons of tudinous trea there of thes Th
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