British Commonwealth of Nations: Notes, Apr. 26, 1926

Tut-tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions. . . ."

Pilgrim. At the Hyde Park Hotel, London, there arrived last week James Hazen Hyde, founder and onetime president of the potent U.S. Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde was attended by a cook, a librarian and twelve other khitmutgars. He took a suite overlooking Hyde Park. Said he: "I am on a pilgrimage. My family's former estate was Hyde Park. Four hundred years ago they lived at Hyde Park Manor House, later confiscated by Henry VIII."

Capitalist-pilgrim Hyde has dwelt for some years at Paris; is a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; has received degrees honoris causa, from Princeton and the University of Rennes, France; wears a pointed mustache, a Van Dyck beard, often a floppy bow-tie.

U.S. Teeth. Under the slogan "British Teeth Are Best", London dental supply firms issued a plaintive bulletin last week advocating a tariff on artificial teeth, in which occurred the statement: "Nearly every British false-tooth wearer has one or more American teeth in his mouth."