SERVICES REWARDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20272, 4 June 1929, Page 9

SERVICES REWARDED.

SIR W. BERRY A BARON.

CAREER OF MR. BRIDGEMAN.

VETERAN ACTOR KNIGHTED. Viscount Inchcapo, who becomes .'in carl, is chairman of the P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company and its allied concerns. and of various other shipping and mercantile companies. IJo was born in Arbroath, his namo being James Lylc Mackay, in 1852, and went to India in 1874. and was a member of the Council of India, 1897-1911. Ifo arranged a commercial .treaty with China in 1902. He has been a member of very many Government committees, and during the war was on the Imperial Defence Committee and chairman of the Contracts Committee. In 1919 he took over all the Government ships and sold them for £35,000,000, at si cost of £BSO, and lie sold the 418 enemy ships assigned to Britain by the Treaty of Versailles. He was created a baron in 1911, a net a viscount in 1924. Mr. W. C. Bridge man, who was First Lord of the Admiralty, did not stand for re-election to the House of Commons, He was member for Oswestry since 1906. He was born in 1864, and was a member of the London County Council for some years. He has been Home Secretary and Secretary of Alines. In the Coalition Ministry lie was a Junior Lord of the Treasury.

Great Newspaper Combine. Sir William Berry', now a baron, is one of the Berry brothers, newspaper owners. He is chairman of Allied Newspapers, Limited, and other newspaper companies, and is a joint proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. Ho was made a baronet in 1921. The' Berry group of newspapers includes about 14 dailies in London, the provinces, Scotland and Wales, and a very large number of Sunday, weekly and technical papers, from the Sunday Times to the Athletic News, Home Fashions and Comic Cuts.

Captain William Brass was Conservative member for Clitheroe, Lancashire, in (lie last Parliament.. lie was born in 1886 and was at Eton and Cambridge. He served in the war and was elected for Clitheroe first in 1922. He has been Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Post-master-General and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Gordon Craig, a son 'of the late Ellen Terry, was born in 1872. He made his debut on the stage under Sir Henry Irving in 1889. His chief work has been done as a scenic artist and producer, especially on the Continent, where he was long held in high repute before recognition came in England. He produced for Eleanors Ousc and exhibitions of his work were held in Berlin, Vienna, Rotterdam and Florence. His book " The Art of (lie Theatre" has been translated into various languages. Fifty Years on the Stage. Mr. Ben Greet was born in 1856, and first appealed on the stage in 1879, and a dinner was given to him a few weeks ago in London by his fellow actors to celebrate his 50th year as an actor. He was then acting Bottom the Weaver, in " A Midsummer Night's Dream." He first started open-a'ir plays, in 1886, with the Pastoral Players. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was in his company. He later appeared in Shakespere in London, starting at the Lyceum. He then produced several of the plays, including "Hamlet" at the Olympic, in which Mr. Gordon Craig played Hamlet. From 1914 to 1918 lie was at- the Old Vic. with Miss Baylis, and produced 24 of Shakespere's plays and 15 others, He presented Shakespere to over 1,000,000 attendances of school children in all parts of London from 1918 to 1922.

Mr. Robert Gilbert Vausittart, principal private secretary to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, after leaving Eton entered the Diplomatic Service in 1902. He has been first secretary at Paris, Teheran, Cairo, Paris, and was secretary to the late Marquess'of Curzon when he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He has published a number of volumes of verse.