WHO'S WHO?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 8 May 1907, Page 9

WHO'S WHO?

Mr. Marshall Haix, the distinguished K.C., believes that there is no finer school for advocacy anywhere than -a* criminal court. ' ';'■ - The Duke of Devonshire,. curiously enough, owns no land in Devonshire. ~ His estates, covering , more than 186,000 acres, are scattered over 14 counties, but Devonshire is not among them. * -~ , . - ;' 'Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, says that when he first began to write plays it was his custom to witness a piece six nights a week in order to learn the technique. ' * ' ■■' "'. ; " ■' ;" -Mr. Bernard Partridge, , who has won fame, not only as a black and white artist, but also oh the stagehis theatrical name is Gould, by-the-bye— his career in a dual capacity of an artist and an ; actor. ' • *-, : "•} Mr. Chamberlain, in ins* earlier days, had considerable dramatic skill, and developed a strong taste for amateur theatricals. When quite young he wrote a one-act play, called " Who's Who?" in which he very cleverly performed the part of a Frenchman. The Crown Prince of Japan is an accomplished exponent of the art of self-defence, called ju-jitsu, and is also.a capable gymnast. As a lad be was exceedingly delicate, and it was with a view to the improvement of his health that he was made to spend an hour or two in a gymnasium every day. . . ;■;,-;. ■ ' _ : Sir Hubert Parry, the Director of the Royal College of Music, was not originally intended for the musical profession. For many years he was a clerk at Lloyd's, and his musical studies were conducted after office hours. ' He excelled at football while at . Eton, and was known as an excellent runner at Oxford. Much curiosity prevails as to the part which 'the Earl of Rosebery will take -in political affairs during the session. He has been the "mystery" statesman of the past year, and there is much speculation whether ho will bring his great abilities to bear on the stirring questions to be dealt with : in Parliament in the near future. _ In many respects he has realised his ambitions. He has been Premier, he has won success as r a writer and eloquent speaker, and he has seemed through his horses the greatest honours the turf could provide. Miv Wanamaker, whose . country house near, Philadelphia has been burned down, is the great retail tradesman of America. His!- career has wanted no element which should make it delightful for those to whom Mr. Samuel Smiles'. " Self Help" remains a sacred book. For he was born a poor brickmaker's son, and founded his great fortune on £20 saved by him as an errand bov and shop lad. His huge stores -in Philadelphia grew from the little shop in which he and a partner took part in the great Civil War—as clothing contractors. 'Now 200.000 people shop in the shapeless mass of building which is " Wanamaker's.' \i In 1868 Sir Charles Wydham made his first bow to an English audience, and, 1 though his career at first did rot promise to be brilliant, he has for 39 years been j constantly before the public. After a long and very successful tenancy of the Critej rion Theatre, with which his name will be ; always connected, he built himself two new 1 theatres—Wyndham's and The New. Sir Charles is one of the very few actors who play in German as well as English, and some vears ago he took a company, including Miss Mary Moore, to Germany for a short season. . : Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, who has just celebrated his birthday, saw active service in the Baltic dining the war in the Crimea, and in the Indian Mutiny won the i V.C. It was at Lucknow, and, it being ! necessary to locate the enemy's exact position, Sir William Peel called for a volunteer, to climb a neighbouring palm tree. Young Salmon came forward, and clambered up the tree, being' meanwhile the target for a hundred rifles, bullets tearing ' away the leaves and piercing even portions of his clothing. He was able, however, to make a full report, thus gaining not only, the coveted decoration, but also promotion to the rank-of commander, being at the time only 23. One day the Rev, Mark Guy Pearse, in a tramp through Cornwall, came to a small village in which a tea-meeting was going on. ; Mr. Pearse entered the little chapel and joined in the tea. He was in the most • unelerical of costumes, which was an act of sense on his part; but during the progress of tea one or two of the "leaders" managed to recognise him; whereupon one of them approached him and said, in an anxious whisper, " Be you the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse?" "Yes—Lbe," he answered." " I thought as how you was. Now, do you see, we want to raise a little money, arid a thought have struck us. Do ee just come out quiet-like and say nothing to nobody, and then we will put ee in the vestry,- and we will go into the chapel and say, 'The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, author off-'Daniel Quorm," is in the vestry, and can be seed at threepence each, the proceeds to go for. the good of the cause!"-'