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...meeting of the P.E.N. Club, International Literary Society, was held with some success last week in Manhattan. There has seldom been so cosmopolitan a literary gathering as that at the Hotel Pennsylvania which marked the opening of the meeting. At the speakers' table were French, German, Swedish, Mexican, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Canadian, Rumanian, Spanish men and women of letters. The speeches (it is ordinarily a rule of the Society that there shall be no speeches) ranged from the kindly words of Mrs. Dawson-Scott, who originated the P.E.N. idea in England, and who read a cordial letter from John...
...Catskill Dutch. Revival meetings are being more and more avidly seized upon by playwrights to furnish good stamping grounds for plays. They have so much natural drama in them, with everybody in sight fighting the Devil at the top of his voice, that any act which contains them virtually writes itself...
...Dutch Westminster Abbey, where are buried former rulers of Holland...
Major F. L. Martin, Commander of the World Cruise (TIME, Jan. 14, et seq.) was lost again with his plane-The Seattle. The three other planes were waiting ahead of him, 400 miles west, at Dutch Harbor (Alaska), while high winds and repairs delayed their chief at Chignik (Alaska). Before Major Martin left, he found it necessary to scrape 400 pounds of ice off his plane and thaw out his gasoline pump. The promise of calmer weather proved deceptive, and with reports of 100-mile-an-hour gales in the North Pacific, the second disappearance of the Seattle...
MacLaren, British flier, half way across India last week, was forced down in Rajputana. His engine was so damaged that he needed three days before going on. The American world fliers were at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, awaiting Commander F. L. Martin who was still at Chignik, the last stopping-point on the American continent. They have travelled a few hundred miles less than MacLaren, but they have almost covered the worst part of their itinerary and will now head to milder, southern climes. MacLaren's worst troubles...