EMINENT PASSENGERS OF THE LUSITANIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12540, 11 May 1915, Page 8

EMINENT PASSENGERS OF THE LUSITANIA.

The .English company which wont to America last October to plav "A Pa r of Silk .Stockings" was led In- the author of the comedy. Mr Cyril Harcourt. who achieved di-tiuction as :i novelist before he became playwright. Flo wrote. among other novels, --'Hie World's Daughter." and recently published "First Cousin to a Beam." The comedy which: "no took to America was the most noted of his works. lt_wa« a. big success both in I.ondon and Jsow York. The leading man of the cast was Mr Kenneth Don "las (Savory), one =of the leading light comedians of the Briti-h stage. His stage career dated from 1893.. when he apnoared in "The New Boy,'' and 'his record 1 consisted or a. long i'ine of successes. _ Hiss 1 Sybil Carlve was another noted figure on the British stage. She was brn in Cape. Colonr. and made her first appearance in 1891. and her career in ic-iding roles was divided between London, and Now York. She was so prominent on the American stage that it is quite possible she remained behind in New York when the company sailed on the Lusitania. ~ It is probable that few figures ui American life were more widely known than the editor of "The Philistine" and "The Fra." Mr Hubbard was the most, prominent man in the settlement at East Aurora, which, was a repetition, with a wider scone and better organisation, of the famous settlement wlndi ■was established' in London by William Morris. The Roycroft publications and manufactures -in furniture -and; fane.y ■ .goods- have a. distinctive quality wliicu makes them pomilar the world over, and Mr Hubbard was mainly ivs|>onmMo On making them known. In lu-> writings Mr Hubbard was as the wielder of a hold, and illuminating pen, and' his literary style was as unconventional .and as forcelul as the ideas he uttered. He was a popular ' lecture in the United States, and a fiiniro well-known at Chautauqua meetings. Mrs Elbert Hubhar-cl was al-o a "distinguished writer and lecturer. "Wb'to Hyacinths" is>- probably her best known'work in Australasia. Alfred Gwvnne Vnndo.rbilt was the second, son of the late Cornelius \anderbilt, the famous American millionaire. "Mr Vanderbiit was one of the most distinguished' members oi tin<rrcat Coaching Club of New York, and frequently he took famous coaching teams across the Atlantic to take part in the Olvmula Horse Show. Justus Miles Foiman. F.R.G.S., was a. prominent American novelist -and dramatist, and a great traveller. He was- educated at Yale and at lire heo!e Julien in Paris, and .studied painting, but'in 1900 betook up writing. Among his best-known novels were: —" I In; Garden of Lie--." '■Tommy C;ti terot. _ '•Buchanan's Wife." "The Ones).. "The Owning Door,'' and "lhe B.tnd Spot." " With the late Svdney Grundy, lie dramatised "The Garden of Lies. Sir Hugh Percy Lane is the ho 11 director oF~ the Municipal Art Ga'llory. Dubl'iw- and director ol the National Art Gallerv. Ireland, since 1914. He has- taken a leading part in the revival of Tr-sh art bv organising winter exhibitions at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and at Belfast; also by the exhibition of Irish naintings 111 London. Sir Hugh presented: a co.leel.'on oi modern art to the city of Dublin, and formed a collection of modern art tor tli" Johannesburg Munie-rail Gallery. Charles Klein, a. leading dramatist, was tr-nally regarded as an American, because most of his plays were written in America, but lie was born m Loudon in ISG7. For many years lie was reader of p'.avs to Charles frohmann. the great "theatrical magnate. A few years' ago he left Amep'ca and settieu 'in Britain', announcing that he had ceased to be an Amerenn. Mr Klein wrote many nlays and two of his most, succc-sful 'dramas have been sf-en in New .-Zealand—"The Lion and the Mouse" and "The Third' Degree"— and- another may be uroduccd in Australia before long—his dramatisation 01 "Potash and Pcrlmutter." David; Alfred Thomas is . the senior member of Thoma-s a"d Davoy, the o-reat co-al sale agents. He was born in Aherdare in 1856. He was educated at Cambridge, and in 1895 was Chairman of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce. Mr Thomas was President of the South Wales Liberal Federation. 1893-97. and represented Merthyr Burghs from 188* to 1910. and was .returned for Cardift in 1910: He is the managing, director of the' Cambrian Combine and other big •South Wales collieries. Ladv Margaret Mackworth, the wile of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, of the Royal Engineers, was the cnlv child of Mr D. A. Thomas. Mr J. Foster Stack-house. F.R.G.S., was- the orgairsor- of the British Antarctic expedition of 1914, which, was desio-.ned 1 to determine the coastline «f Kng Edward VII Land. The expedition', however, did not leave the Old Country, owing to the departure of th" Shackleton enterorise. The Rev. Farther Basil William Mat--11 rin was a famous theolog ; :-ui>. He was horn in' Ireland in 1847, and was; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, whence lie entered the Anglican Church <a;nd 'was curate at Peterslow, and in 1873 he went to St. John tinder Fa the r Reuson. Tn 1876 he was sent to t"ke charge of St. Clement's parish in Philadelphia. In 1893 he became a Reman Catholic, and was ordained by Cardi'-->l- - -i;n the following vear. _ He wrote many works mi theology, including "Laws' of the Spiritual -Life" and "The Price of Unity, 1912." Charles Frohmaun. foi- a long tim" has- been regarded, as tlv hi<r"est and most da rug "of the American theatrical managers. Ho" was born in Ohio in 1860.- and commenced' Wo in journalism, being on the New York Tribune, -nd. later, on the Now York Graphic. Re"'in"ing his theatrical career as a ■ My office clerk at ITooley's Theatre in Brooklyn. hj" subsequently became manager of Havorley's Minstrels and wo"t to London. In 1879 he became assistant mana<-" , r of the Madison Sonare Theatre, New York, and by 1886 «--°s a mnnaper i" a small way. being Wsop of the New York Comedy His first, success was "Shenin 1888. one of the first American Civil Wt nlays written in +l,« States.. Tt laid the foundation of 'l-,i s fe.-tnne. Later he produced "The G;.-l T. I,"fi. Pelii"d Ale" bore with the F'-awloy Company). With the money made from these, plays Mr FVnh-l-nn-in extended his enternrises rapidly, and was recognised as a leading mana-. rco r pi T ovdon and New York. He was oTgn-liM-orl un by an arrangement, with J. C. Williamson in Australia for some rears, he controlled and owned many theatres.