Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 11

GAMNAVALS L “CARGELS CORER By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 14.—Mme. Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold F. Mc- | Cormick) has been stricken with in- fluenza, and though it is only a mild attack, she has found it necessary to cancel ‘her concert scheduled for Or- | Lady Astor Claims World O:K. Despite Life’s Inequalities Cites Own Children to Show Equal Rights Are Denied Mankind. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 14.—Lady Astor thinks this world isn't so bad as So- clalists picture it, but there's no equal- ity in it, even among her own six | chitdren. | Addressing an audience of Conserva- |tive party members, she referred to | what she termed the modern craze for | 2quality, and added that none of her | children were equal. “The parents are the same,” she said, ‘but the children are not. I ‘cannot THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928. chestra Hall tomorrow afternoon. | R A statement by two atfending phy- | dlame the government for that. I have >ne boy full of dash and energy, and siclans sald only that Mme. Walska Was | ;,;iner who is a dreamer. The chances confined to bed by influenza, and that are that the elder brother will have it would be impossible for her to fill the |io look after the dreamer, and so it engagement. Harry E. Vogeli, in charge |is with the world. We cannot get peaple of arrangements for the concert, said | cqual; but we have to work together to that those who had purchased tickets |give them an equal chance.” should hold them, to be used at a later |~ Lady Astor said Soclalists were con- date, to be fixed upon Mme. Walska's recovery. The influenza attack was: sudden, Mme. Walska having been the center of attention at the opera Wednesday night, when she occupied the McCor- mick box during the performance of “Don Giovanni.” Since returning to Chicago after an absence of years, Mme. Walska has settled herself in the Harold F. McCor- mick town house and has indicated that she intends to make her perma- nent home here, except for annual trips to Burope during the Spring and Sum- mé* months. Postponement- of tomorrow’s concert regalls that Mme. Walska's previous scheduled appearances here invariably have been attended by unlooked for developments which have necessitated r cancellation. e latest concert arrangements were believed, however, to have been firmly fixed, Mme. Walska even having de- cided upon the numbers that would go to make up her program. Sewer Survey Price Quoted. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., Decémber 14.— B. Whitman, Baltimore engineer, under whose direction Rockville’s sewer system was installed many years agn, has submitted to,the mayor and coun- a price of $1,600 for making & pre- |' looking to extension of B e ey crea: water supply, possibly by ‘piping from & nearby stream. tinually saying what a dreadful world this was and how it was getiing worse |and worse. When they told her that, | she as a ‘woman looked back and, like avery mother, knew that her children were having greater advantages than she ever had. “But I am not contented with the world,” sghe said emphatically. “If I were confronted ‘with the social condi- tions in which hundreds of children are being hrought up today, I ‘should lnr)', be interested in politics.” | DICKSON GETS DI\;ORCE. Denver Man Acquitted Month Ago of Murder Charge. DENVER. December —Alpheus Dickson, Denver theatrical man who was acquitted a month ago of a charge ! of murder for the slaying of Herbert Powell, a grocery clerk, yesterday was | granted a divorce from Mrs. Zella Dick- | son. At Dickson’s trial it was charged that the killing grew out of a love affair be- tween Mrs. Dickson and Powell. The divorce was granted on grounds |of cruelty. Mrs. Dickson, now living with her parents in Ames, Iowa, did not | contest the action. . 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