Show Living Statues Statuel Save KiD Rings Kings Pride Among the vaudeville acts acta of our vanished yesteryears the living statuary acts posed by shapely men and women in white tights were more or less lell certain to come around each year But Out there was one historic occasion when such living statues had to save a kings king's pride The king was Stanislaus I of Po Po- Po- Po land He Ise was a slavish Imitator of Louis Louls XIV of France and since the French kin king had erected the mag mag- palace of Vena Versailles lUes with its famous gardens and fountains fountain Stan Stan- couldn't rest until he had a Versailles of his hll own says the Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee Journal By means of heavy taxation the Polish king wrung enough money out of his people to build a palace to Import trees and shrubs from all over the world to have a great canal dug and terraces terraces ter ter- races and paths laid out Proudly the Polish king sent out many to a grand d fete at his lion Uon Versailles Then he remembered remembered remembered that he hadn't any statues whereas the French monarch had bad scores cores of them It was too late to get real statues But the resourceful Stanislaus hired many male and female models dressed them In classical robes am and made them pose for hours In the niches among his hll newly planted shrubberies Some of th these e living statues statues' almost died of fatigue beor be tore tor or the last guest left the Hardens gardens |