THE VICTIM.

Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 28 November 1914, Page 8

THE VICTIM.

"My poor old Mend 1" I cried, as Smith ' ■■ ' t x 1 - Came hobbling down the street, All swathed in bandages and with Expression, far from sweet. "Have you been fighting Germans, then,' ' ' ■ Or has some accident Disabled you? How, where and when . - Were you thus maimed ana rent?" "I scratched _y finger with a pin, I had a trifling fall, While shaving slightly cut my chin.— And that is really all. "Then why these bandages and "- slings? ■ And why this crutch? And These splints and mummifying things?" He answered with a sigh: ; "Mv girls have joined a Red Cross class!" , t . ! I wrung his bandaged hand. « "Poor, patient martyred man I .alas!" I said, "I understand!" Gbaob Golden.

Several English actors and dramati_t« havio put their grai|se-painfca away and buckled on their swords on behalf of their country. Robert Loraine, the most amusing John Tanner known to the present English generation, is serving aloft in an aeroplane. George Barrett is said to be mine-sweeping in the North Sea. Dion Clayton Calthrop has got into a coastguard's uniform, and is working longer hours than a unionist considers adequate in private employ. Others serving in various capacities are J. L. Mackay, Charles Trevor, Frank Saker, Frederick Doyd, Percy Soper, and EaJliwell Hobbes, who was in Australia with the Lewis Waller company a while ago. Mr David Belasoo, the well known New York producer, is shortly to produce, in association with Mr Andrew Carnegie, an elaborate spectacle drama employing about one thousand persons, and called "The Prince of Peace." The play will contain a plea for universal peace and the brotherhood of man, and will mark an innovation in Mr Carnegie's world-wide propaganda and in Mr Belasco's operations.