Show IJ I. I r LEICESTER SQUARE HAS TRAGEDIES t I v By MILTON BRONNER J N NEA EA Service Writer I LONDON Jan 3 Not Not far from I Leicester Square famous in song and end stor story there is a little clear space bac back of or one of the ho art gal gal- It is adorned by a statue of ot Henry Irving and if It It were in Paris would probably be called Place Irving I And eYer every every day day the stone eyes ees of I Ithe the great tragedian look down upon I tragedies as poignant as any In tn which he once enthralled the En- En I j f speaking glish-speaking world For this particular par par- spot In London is the place par par-I of ot the broken men broken men broken In in 1 pocket in bod body in spirit in clothes and shoes I J JAI AI Alt All cray dy long and until late in inthe inthe I the evening they display the wares in which the they have hae Invested In their I last pitiful pence j More often that not what the they i have Is some cheap trash made in I Germany and sold over here for a a wobbling policeman who nods his head a a dude who waggles I Ilia lils cane a paper bird which flaps i its wings I People in a a. hurry to cross over ocr from the Haymarket ket to Charing I Cross Cros pass by Only occasionally do tho the poor men make a sale and anti I even then thep the profit is a bare penny I But its it's all that stands between them and actual starvation I The humor of Georges Clemen 1 is 18 Inexhaustible Age can not not wither it nor time stale stole It Ills I f sayings Baying are as all sharp as sardonic ic as Ur devastating as they were forty forry years ago The Tho Tigers Tiger's body may maybe maybe be old but his claws are young youns- I and terrible The other day somebody asked him what he thought of ot the present i government of France And I I promptly the old man put down on j paper the tho mathematical formula I I 0 x 0 x 0 Ox x 0 9 x xO 0 equals 0 O If the French J parliament passes a bill proposed by the tho government the number of American heiresses marrying marrIng Frenchmen will be seriously seriously seri serI- I I curtailed I For long it has been one of the I I anomalies of ot France Prance that although I It Is one of ot the most genuinely I I democratic countries In the world i there are hundreds of people who still prefix themselves as duke count and marquis Some of these titles go back very ery far in time The government now proposes to make It Illegal for such titles to ap appear appear ap- ap pear In any government documents In real estate deeds In marriage licenses or ox passports etc In other words al all the big brood of or dukes duke princes counts etc will h henceforth be plain monsIeur And all aU the American heiresses who marry them will be plain madame And that will surely gum gurn the game Because why buy a duke with your our money If It you OU cant can't be cat called duchess 1 Speaking of ol heiresses the English have a very ery smooth custom If a n. aman aman man marries a girl and some of ot the wife's relatives leave leavo her a huge chunk of kale it i Is not unusual for the happy happ hubby thereupon to hyphenate his name There are two In the present BritIsh Brit lint ish cabinet The British minister of ot labor once upon a time was Sir Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Steel He lie married a n. woman oman who Inherited Inherit inherit- I ed od a It huge fortune from her father So now they are the latter being the wife's wite's maiden name Sir Phillip Phillp Lloyd Lloyd-Graeme president preal- preal dent o of the board of trade in the cabinet alread already enjoyed a hyphen But he is to have an entirely new one and be Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister because hIs wife re recently recently re- re inherited about five million dollars |