People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 22 June 1911, Page 1161

People We Hear About

Mr. Joseph A. Chisholm, K.C., was recently elected Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the third time in succession. His election was unopposed. Mr. Chisholm is. a Catholic. ' i Mr. John Cor mack, the Irish tenor— who is soon about to visit Australia as a member of Madame Melba’s Opera Company, was once paid a distinguished compliment in London Dy Madame Tetrazzini, the great Italian pfima cloxina, and a Convent Garden Opera audience. ’After a duet in. ‘ Rigoletto,’ in which Tetrazzini and McCormack sang, they were recalled. Mr. Cor mack led the lady on to the stage, and then modestly retired. Tetrazzini mJoued mm back and insisted upon his return to share ' v iJi J,( T the plaudits. The audience, recognising the mems of the young tenor’s singing, and marking their approval of the celebrated prima donna’s graceful appreciation of it, made the rafters ring loud and long with their renewed applause. That was almost the first time that M Cormack s great merits were publicly recognised by London opera-goers, and the famous Italian singer’s marked appreciation of his singing then manifested, helped con•ideiab.y to estaolish the young Irishman’s fame on the concert and opera stage. ci cr *! G i r<P r . Gai V °.*' Gerontius ’ will be performed by the Sheffield Choir during its visit to New Zealand. The composer Sir Edward Elgar, is an exception to the .general lule that a. prophet is 'without honor in his own country, Sir Edward, who was knighted seven years ago, was born at Broadhoath, in orcestershire, in 1857, he is the eldest surviving son of W. H. Elgar, organist. In 1889 he married Caroline Alice, orny daughter of the late General Sir Henry Lee Roberts, K.C.8., and they have one clau"liter Ho was educated at Littleton House, and privately. Among Qor Cin! ! P n OSltlo i 1S aro „‘ T Lu ? Christi ’ (Worcester Festival), 1890 , _ Caractacus ’(Leeds Festival), 1898; ‘Dream of n^°> II Vo U no ( B lrmin g". Festival), 1900; ‘The Coronation , ■ 1 JU “:, iears a ~°> &n; Edward is pleased to remember, lie wrote the score for . nigger minstrel ballads, and even played m a troupe of Christmas ‘waits.’ They were a mind of nve and one member of the troupe who' had surreptiousiy left the paternal domicile adopted the disguise 0 a .Shylock wig when it became necessary to play in front of his home.

Nobody in the Kingdom of Roumania works harder than its Queen. By 9 clock she is at the desk, winter and summer and many of the hundreds of letters received sue answers herself. She controls all the institutions sho lias founded, and takes a personal interest in all the inmates or her homes and orphanages. She knows exactly what is going on, and frequently visits all these places, talking to everybody and finding out exactly what each person wants. In addition to all this work, she has always some hook and hand, and often the supervision of a translation as well the day is spent on her public work and her correspondence; the night on her literary work. Sho types all her correspondence herself, and used three machines loi the Roumanian, Drench, and German languages respective She is also equally familiar with the English language. Besides this, she reads on an average one book a (lay, and arranges receptions and private concerts in the palace several times a month. When one remembers that her Majesty is over sixty, and far from robust in health, one can only wonder how she does it. . ’

he Earl of Denbigh, in a speech to his Flintshire tenants at a dinner in celebration of his eldest son’s marriage, announced his intention of selling his estate of Downing in that county (says the Glasgow Observer). Four years alter the marriage of Viscount Feilding, (as he then vas). he and his wife were both received into the Catholic Cmireh in Edinburgh. Bishop Gillis, at that time Coadjutor- v icar-Apostohc of the Eastern District, received f Cl r vr atl °" x. f l A ord and Lady Feilding in the chapel of St. Margarets Convent on August 28, 1850; and the Bishop s subsequent controversy and correspondence with the converts father, the seventh Earl of Denbigh, and with the latter s chaplain, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, was aftervards published in pamphlet form. At the time of Lord I Gliding s reception into the Church, he and his wife were engaged in building a church on Lady Feilding’s estate in Nortn Yales; and the building was nearly ready for handing over to the Anglican Bishop of St. Asaph After their conversion, however, they decided that they could not conscientiously devote the church to Protestant worship p ; ,dlt , "’ a Ti therefore, when finished, opened as a Cathode Church. This was in 1802, aim it is now well known as Foti i r' nrC i , ’u mo + uast( V‘ y ’ ?" cl novitiatfi of the Capuchin tntheis at Pantasaph. Viscountess Feilding died in the following year, and her husband married, in 1857 Miss Denbioh ielpy ’ ° f Spetc 1 ey ’ motlier of the present Earl of