Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 13 | Royal Author Arrives Sans Ceremony for Lecture

Royal Author Arrives Sans Ceremony for Lecture Tour By HORTENSE SAUNDERS N NEA EA Service Writer S r- r rV NEV V YORK Jan Welcom Welcoming Ing ro royal al visitors what It was before the triumphant entry and crestfallen exit of the queen of Rumania Rumania Ru mania dulled the keen edge of this democratic delight S So our latest Prince William ot of Sweden was allowed to with arrive out such a display ot of gold lace swords high hats and excessive national national na- na anthem playing as greeted his brother the Crown PrInce Gustavus Gustavus Gus Gus' Gus Gus- Adolphus in May or or the flu Ru manan queen or the Prince of W Wales les Prince Williams William's welcome was informal informal in- in formal marked by business suits derby hats and plain handshaking This was all in keeping however I 4 V V 5 v VV 5 V. V V V S SV V S V'S V V V e C r rS S A Prince William poses at ease as his ship approaches New York but when the camera moves near for a what a self conscious grin I as the Swedish prince comes to us not as a royal emissary but a working man earning his living by lecturing and writing Besides earning his living he has other democratic tastes plays poker likes tabs and movies hates to talk politics and has been di- di No wonder we can treat him as an equal V lIe is less suave than his brother the crown prince but obViously pleasanter company lie He certainly Is not handsome like the the- ot of Wales Vales He is 6 feet 4 raW boned with straight light ht hall hair that take kindly to law and order ears cars that get as tar far from his head as they can a n e that is much too prominent and a dimple that almost at- at mot most dIvides his chIn In two dis- dis t sections But also h he has a a. I gallant manner an Oxford accent a Puckish sense of humor and a personality th that t immediately gets you He has a way of sitting his height folded as a's compactly as pos pos- sIble his his' arms on his knees his his his' I ear cupped with his hand and waIting for others to to d do the tall talkS talk talk- S lag ing Immediately he warns you he heIs heI I Is is slightly deaf I left my hearing in Africa he puts it On his lecture tour he will tell ot of othis his recent in Africa where he led the Swedish zoological expedItion through the Uganda and to Lake starting from NairobI in the Kenya country where he explored volcanoes tamed thousands of bIrd specimens as well as nil ull sorts of odd and unusual unusual un- un usual mammals V It was called a hunting I tion he i ed d and nd of course cours we did some shooting with guns hut but most of it was done with the tho camera I rind find it much more interesting inter inter- esting and amusing to hunt that way It seems a shame to kill such I beautiful animals when you can get geta a record on the cinematograph and andle I le let the animals nl l live V all CU explorer and naturalist Prince Villiam Wil- Wil I liam is also a writer tel ot of plays poems and dramatic So ho he is naturally interested in our literature literature litera- litera ture which he knows well since English is the six languages in which he Is perfectly at home I he wants to see an ONeill O'Neill pla play produced over here though he has seen Swedish verI ver- ver He thinks Galahad a most delightful book and that I Erskine had the amusIng wit of Bernard Shaw his favorite modern At the mention of Gentlemen Prefer Prefer- BlOndes he heV V laughed heartily and agreed it deserved deserved de- de served its popularity and that it was quite the vogue in his coun- coun try The royal visItor can pound a typewriter with ease but prefers to todo todo do hIs writing with a pen But I suppose over o here where you are all so efficient you prefer the typewriter type type- writer he said politely I Though ho he comes from a cold and snowbound country Prince William is no enthusiast for winter sports and avoids the cold weather whenever when I ever he can I like it warm and tropical he ha laughed why I I like Africa V The airplane is hIs favorite method of travel I expect he I said to see see airships used for tran tran- Atlantic travel and airplanes for shorter distances I I share your American fondness for speed However due to the cold weather he will travel by train in America Ho He vIll go into the as far faras faras as Kansas and will vill include many of the cOlleges in his lecture ary lie He has some feet of film which he directed in Africa I and he will show It 11 in c cOnnection with his taUt talk His highness comes ver very frankly as a working man As the second son he is not supported by the SwedIsh government and he retired i from the navy to devote himself to exploring and hunting lie JIe will reI refrain re- re I I frain activities ts t much muchas as he is permItted to I like to work he said simply V But I am not hero only to lecture lee lee- ture but to learn to study your people see how your is done one and visit your museums I expect I to get far more th than n I can give