Monday, Jun. 18, 1923
(During the Past Week the Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Followlng Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)
Edward of Wales: "Lord Riddell's News of the World printed an account of how I broke into my home at St. James' Palace a few nights ago after having forgotten my latchkey. Finding an open window, I requested a 'Bobby' to give me a 'leg up.' This he did. But no sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again -or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahoma: " I entered suit in the Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman who was at one time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines: "The present typhoon season is the worst in years! "My yacht, me aboard, was caught in Manila Harbor by a storm and thrown high on a submerged breakwater. No damage was done and no one was injured. Tugs pulled the craft into deep water." William J. Bryan: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, said I was ' as sincere and honest a man as ever believed in his own opinions on things about which he could not possibly know anything!' '' Francis Ouimet: " Mayor Curley of Boston presented me with a black box containing a silver and gilt key to the city, in recognition of my service as a golfer on the Walker Cup (earn in England." Thomas Gibbons, challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing-championship: "Mayor Nelson of St. Paul gave me a good luck token before my departure for Shelby, Mont. It was the left hind foot of a buck rabbit shot in a cemetery at midnight under a full moon! "
Woodrow Wilson: "A band began to play Dixie near my house. Mrs. Wilson and I went to the window and there was the Hejaz Temple (Shriner) Band of Greenville, S. C. I called: 'Will you play The Star Spangled Banner ?' They did, and it was reported that tears stood in my eyes."
Mrs. Warren G. Harding: "Delegations from the Shriners of Ohio called on Mr. Harding on the south lawn of the White House. Because of my indisposition I watched from the White House balcony. At my request two of the Shriners' bands played my favorite piece: The End of a Perfect Day."
Mme. Raymond Poincare, wife of the Premier of France: " In retaliation for the reputed French annexation policy in the Rhineland, a Cologne newspaper printed an involved analysis of my family tree concluding that I am ' a pure product of old German stock and really belong to Germany.' The long intermingling of nationalities in Alsace-Lorraine is the basis of this claim."
Peyton C. March, U. S. A., retired, Chief of Staff of the American Army during the war: "In recent months I have visited half of the most notable art galleries in Western Europe and have been an attendant at the best concerts given in France."
" Mr. Jeritza" (Baron Leopold Popper) : " In Vienna my wife, Maria, Metropolitan Opera star, underwent successfully an operation for appendicitis."