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Show By Hn.T09f BBOlTITEaV MBA m ha WHtn IrfWDON. Aug. II. Ona of tha graataat Jokaa arar parpatratad by a corporation waa racantly pullao by tha lnon tranaporlatlos trual which eontrola rha aubway and omnlbu ayat of tha big city. Jt put up a poatar giving flgura to prora that alow eld Iondon la faal-ir faal-ir than rapid New Tork aa ragarda Ita aubway train. II omnlboaaa. taxla. atroatcar and padaairlana. To aa Amarlcan llln I J-o"-i.on, who alao know hla Haw Tork. tha whola thing am rldlculoua. In tha flrat placa all tha t-oalon auhwaya ara Two-track affalra. ona for tha op and ona far tha down train, whare aa tha Waw Tork i aubway aub-way hav four track, of whli-n tw ara davotad to eipraaa traffic Thaaa tralna whu by ao rapidly thay would maka a londonar' hair ti,,'"wM Vu.ma. ' r Broadway ttraatcara mada only nlna inllaa an hour, comparad with tan ntlUa mada by tha tooting cara But "aaljar th dlffaranea: Tha i Broadway cara traral on ona of tha bult tbor-oughfar. tbor-oughfar. la tha world. T"Olln la maraly a auburbaa aactlon af "'erownlag Joka t all. right aftar th ubway ooatara aopaarad. aoma of tha londoa .nwapapara atartad a croaada about th progroai mada by vahlalaa on tha vain ntraata. which wara alwaya halng "lockad aa that It waa taatar to walk to a jlao Jhaa rida. Aa lona aa th Hat of famoo man and womei holda ut. It looks aa If John Drlnkwater. the English poet and dramatist, will be able to write playa until be la 9. . Having scored a huge aueeeaa oa hoth sldea of tba ocean with "Abraham "Abra-ham Lincoln." he hse slaca offered "M.tYy ntuart" "Oliver Cromwell and now ' Kobert B. Lee." ' An It la understood he ha written the libretto for n opera about th Scotch poet Robert Burns and ha In hand another American play about John Brown, whoa body Ilea "amouldlng In tha grave." The critic her dldn'C flk tb ply abnt. Quels Mary and Cromwell Crom-well aad are not much kinder to the on Juat produced about Lee. One London paragrapkar aaya, la all ae-rlouaneea: ae-rlouaneea: . ' '.. ' . "British . people generally, doa t knew who bee waa There wa a eoag not along ago called visiting for the Robert . Lea1 and I actually ac-tually heard en man ask .If tt waa a play about a song writer." Americana who have eee the Slay grin because theee Virginians on't talk with a Bouthern. but a Ith a decided Bngllah accent. Just as they grinned when they aaw the Brltlah production of Lincoln. Tha man who played the title part wa a epleadld actor, but ba waa several sev-eral fe-x shorter than Aba an be poke with a delicious Irish ac- a- . . ' Paderewskr th' great Polish pianist and former premier of his country, hai keen having a rapt ureas ur-eas welcome here prior to hie reeling reel-ing for a aecond triumphal trip ta tha Vntted Btatea And his pres-' pres-' snce haa brought eut a lot of tn-i tn-i tereetlna- yarna about hint. Tor Instance, they aay when be I we In Cleveland, former War ec-ratary ec-ratary Newton D. Baker aaid ta him reproachfully: "When you ara Paderewakl. bow could you etoop ta be-a mere pra-rol.rT' pra-rol.rT' An JCetl'sh woman, mad ' about bis playing, wrote him asking for a lock of hair. His secretary aeat a reply followa: -Dear Madame: af. Paderawekl directs ma to aay It afford mm muck plaaeure to eaanply wlthreur request. Tou fall to specify whose hair voa desire, so we era saaalng samplea of that of hla valet, hie |