"Names Make News"

"If I am in doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter-- though probably unknown to myself--or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years ago."

So, to a gathering of London newsmen in London last week, spoke the father of Britain's most newsworthy minor, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ("Lilybet") Windsor, 4. But His Royal and paternal Highness the Duke of York was not complaining. Goodnatured, he has the good sense to know that great personages tend in democracies to be public property. His mother has taught him, as she herself was taught, humility on the subject.

Nor was any hope of relief for great personages offered in the reply of Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, London Evening News, etc., etc. "Speaking professionally," said he, "I do not know what the newspapers would do without the Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth. There is not a newspaper in the country in which there is not a strict instruction that the closest watch be kept ... on them."

Even less privacy than that of the Duke of York is enjoyed by his elder brother, Edward of Wales, Crown Prince. If every newspaper in Britain watches the Duke of York's family, every news agency in the world watches Wales. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press last year bracketed the Prince with his father, George V, as the world's No. 2 news figure (after the U. S. President). Edward of Wales, attending another London banquet of last week, at the Carlton Club in honor of this year's Walter Hines Page Fellows (Robert Paine Scripps of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Editor Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, Publisher Stuart Hoffman Perry of the Adrian [Mich.] Telegram), had a good time but made no speech.

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