PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Her r Ballin's favourite recreation is archery.

Orange jelly and cream is a favoui - ite dish of the Russian Royal Family. * * * "Harry" is the pet name by which the Queen of Norway is known to all her relatives. * * # President Poincare has made a collection of photographs of English soldier* who have won the V.C. * » » • According to the lately retired doorkeeper at the Albert Hall, London. Mr. Asquith never attends a concert there. * * * * Rev. R. J. Campbell does most of his literary work in the early morning. Queen Mary's accounts of her personal expenditure are kept by her chief dresser. * » » » Sir Edward Grey's lunch at the Foreign Office often consists of chicken sandwiches and barley-water and milk. **' * * Mr. Rockefeller has an electric fan in his bedroom, the whirring of which puts him to sleep when the great millionaire is suffering from attacks of sleeplessness. « * # # Sir Squire Bncroft explains his wonderfully sound health by the fact that skipping is ono of his morning exercises. "And don't forget to skip backwards," he savs. * * * * Mr. Jolin Mackenzie, the Keeper of th» Office at the Loid Chamberla.n % Department, St. James, Palace, who has just retired, holds the record for long service with the Royal Service—-forty-three years. H*> has served under nine Lord Chamberlains. • • * Miss Mary Anderson (Mme. de Na* varro), who recently appeared at a charity performance in aid of disabled soldiers of the famous Worcester Regiments, has been offered as much as £2OOO a week to return to the stage professionally, but has refused every offer. * * * * Mme. Sarah Bernhardt disregards entirely the claims of fivsh air and exercise, contending that her enthusiasm for her art is sufficient to keep her in health. She drives to the theatre in a closed carriage, spending twelve hours there daily without fresh air or daylight.

Miss Madge Titherndge, whose latest success is "Tigers Cuh/" at the Garrck made her first appearance at this same theatre when a child m " Tlu Water Babies. ' \\'hen amongst other parts she played '.ho hind leg of a lobster, a part - ; :>' lowd ; 0 much that after each perrormance she pleaded with team to be allowed to go through it all again immediately. • • •

Captain Tickers, of the "Robin Hoods," who wan the Victoria Cross at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, had a rousing welcome on his return home to Nottingham recently. He was escorted in an open carriage from the station to the market-place by three hundred wounded or invalided members of his regiment, headed by a band, and was presented by the Mayor with a wristlet watch.

King George lias lately been devoting some time to the study of Russian.

Royalties in the German Army cannot wear mufti without the permission of the Kaiser.

The Prince of Wales, during his stay in London, roso every day at six o' clock in the morning.

Sir Felix Schuster has a collection of teh autographed photographs of famous sniffers and other musical artists. # * * *

President Wilson is stated by an American writer to have great faith in dreams as revelations' of future events The Princess Mary, in writng to the Queen, addresses her mother as "My darling mamma," and signs her letters "Mav." a d n a

It ha* been estimated by an American writer that it would take ten years to writo a detailed account of the war up to the present time. 1 * * * *

The Duchess of Marlborough has a great dislike, to outdoor sports, in which respect she resembles Queen Mary, whose only outdoor recreation for years has been driving.

Mrs. Hobart, master of the Isle oj Wight Harriers, and wife of Colonel C. V. C. Hobart, D.5.0., has sold several of her famous stud of Shetland ponies and devoted the proceeds to the purchase of comforts for wounded soldiers at her Westcliffe war hospital at Hythc, near Southampton.

* * *. A gold cigarette-case, with an inscription on it denoting that it was a present from the Kaiser to a German officer, was found in a captured trcucn by an English Tommy some little while back.

Mr Harry Lauder has added to Lis other achievements by writing tne words and music of a Scottish playlet, ••The Nicht Afore," which was produced in New York recently. * * *

Mr. Howard Doane, who recently died at the age of eighty-one. wrote the music of "Tell Me the Old, Old Story, ' and nianv other hymns. He was a manufacturer of wood-working machinery, and wrote many hymns in his spare time.

*** . T Usually to be found dining in London is the Duke of Orleans, long since forgiven for certain verbal indiscretions which isolated him from Court circles. Ho is, like the Duke of the Abruzn, de voted to exploring, and an expedition led liv him reached two degrees further north' in Greenland than had hitherto been attained. * * * *

Mr. Solomon J. Solomon, the famous artist, has created a record for an 1? \ He recently passed from the United Arts Force' into the Regular Arm?, and has gone to the front as a lieutenant-colonel. He is the inventor of various colour schemes for rendering men and equipment loss visible.