Honors

At the end of every year, it is the custom of British Prime Ministers to recommend to the Sovereign those of his subjects worthy of special recognition.

At the birth of each year, it is customary for the Court Circular to record a list of those subjects whom the King has been "graciously pleased" to honor.

The list was made by Premier Baldwin and the Court Circular duly gazetted the King's pleasure:

P:Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, who recently relinquished the Governor-Generalship of New Zealand, was raised to an Earldom. Sir J. S. Bradbury, who gave his name during the War to the paper one-pound notes (bradburies), and who is among the elite of the financial monde in Britain, was made a Baron, as was His Honor Sir Henry Duke, President of the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

P:Among the 70-odd knighthoods conferred and the number of decorations bestowed which do not carry the accolade, the arts, sciences and letters received noteworthy recognition. Sir James G. Frazier and Sir Ernest Rutherford, respectively fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and director of the Cavendish Laboratory in the same university, were made members of the Order of Merit. Francis Dicksee, new President of the Royal Academy, Edmund Gosse, critic and poet, were knighted. Such well-known scientists as Profs. John Adams, R. H. Biffen, Gowland Hopkins, Dr. John Campbell were also knighted.

P:Lieutenant-General Sir Tom Bridges, Governor of South Australia, was among the few men in the

Dominion to be honored; he became a Knight Commander of the Bath.

P: The Marquess of Londonderry alone was nominated a Privy Councillor.

P:Women were well represented. Mrs. Grant Strait of the American Baptist Mission in Nellore, District of Madras, India, received the Kaisar-I-Hind medal. The best known of the British women to become Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was Miss Ellen Terry (Mrs. James Carew) famed actress, now in retirement at the age of 76. When approached by the press, Dame Ellen said: "It was a very jolly thing to happen and I hope everybody in London is as happy as I am."

Then, to give reasons for her elation, she added:

"I am delighted first because the recognition the King lias given to me is a recognition of my profession. Then it is a recognition of my sex. But my third reason is not quite so altruistic. I am quite pleased myself."

Remembering Sir Henry Irving, her old associate, the first actor ever to be knighted in Britain, she continued: "He regarded the high honor as an added dignity to the great profession of the Theatre. He was a great artist."

Asked if she would like to go back-on the stage, she sighed:

"Why, of course. I have a hankering after old haunts. The best I can do now, however, is to go to the theatre. I am very deaf and my sight is failing, but when I go to the theatre I suddenly get better. I can hear. I can see. I can enjoy the play. And then there is always the consolation of going over parts. In my quiet hours, I enact Shakespeare. He is the poet most easy to remember. I can recite Hamlet from beginning to end even now.

"Shaw, too, I always found easy, but Barrie was ever a teaser. I remember I learned my part in Captain Brassbound's Conversion in a few days, but how I had to struggle over Alicc-Sit-by-the-Fire. Alice is becoming more wonderful every day. I have my own listening-in set, and with head phones I can hear everything."