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Show what C C ) 2about: A Bride for King Edward BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. According to tradition or maybe it's law King- EJ-ward EJ-ward is limited in the choice of a bride to one of five European princesses. Even so, his majesty majes-ty would find nearly everybody over here giving loud cheers niul some of his loyal sm.jects at home doing the same thing, too, I bet pssTl you did he Just up 1 and marry the ' healthy, sweet, nor- v 3 nml-minded, clean- i if,-' - '1 blooded daughter of I' some English eoun- 1 try family. I j Indeed, he might r $ gc further and fare 4 no worse, by tak- f - x 3 lug for his queen kX.L ,.f.J a well-born Cana- , , s Cobb diangirl. Still, this would severely shock a certain type of Britisher who always refers to a Canadian as a "colonial," with a lower case "c" or, how about a maiden maid-en 'from a quarter which, like Canada, Can-ada, produces some of the loveliest women in the world the Antipodes? By the way, does that same breed of insular Englishman call a native of those parts an "Antipathy?" Probably so. Hamlet and Hams THE papers say a peasant audience audi-ence in Rumania broke up a Shakespearean performance because It wasn't funny. Well, could they but watch some of the Hamlets I've watched, they'd die laughing. Likewise, If those riotous peasants peas-ants really have a sense of humor they'd get a giggle out of a certain not altogether unfamiliar pattern of classical screen production, never realizing, of course, that they were laughing at an epic. One thing, though, we can do superlatively su-perlatively in these parts and that's putting on a ballyhoo. That gigantic gigan-tic flaming meteor which scared folks along the eastern coast wouldn't have caused a ripple out here. We'd just think somebody was opening a new lunch stand over on Hollywood boulevard. Perkins Versus Roper I DO so wish the Tommy Man-villes Man-villes would make up their mind, one way or the other, so we could all concentrate on those plaintive tapping sounds emanating from the cabinet at Washington. Dame Rumor hath it that It's Uncle Dan Roper signaling faintly for help because somebody In the administration Is trying to snatch his playthings from him. Now Uncle Dan Is a patient soul and a true southern gentleman, so not for worlds would he antagonize any good Democrat, much less a lady Democrat. But they d' say he harbors har-bors a secret gnawing grievance. As the report filters through out here he doesn't mind Mme. Perkins taking her own job so seriously, but does object to her trying, with equal seriousness, to take his. It may be only a base Republican slander. Still, say what you will, Mme. Perkins has got a mighty determined de-termined jaw. Reading 5,000,000 Telegrams WHILE It may have been sort of care-free for Senator Black's committee to seize all those musty mountains of private telegraph messages, mes-sages, why Invoke the law to enjoin 'em? Surely anybody who deliberately deliber-ately sits down to wade through 5,000,000 stale telegrams has been punished before he starts and will suffer from pollen In the pod before he's through. Think of the wires a fellow gets on birthdays and holidays. holi-days. Some of them aren't so good even when fresh, are they? Apparently the present Investigation Investiga-tion alms to find out whether any lobbying has actually gone on In Washington and Indeed there has been a suspicion to that effect for quite some time. Farewell to Shaw AFTER his recent trans-continental scorning tour he has left us once our venerated Idol and always al-ways our severest critic. Somebody overlooked a chance as the world's most ex-distinguished vegetarian, having In advance deplored de-plored It for showing the bad taste to be a Yankee Institution, stood on the rim of America's noblest scenic wonder, shaking a petulant whisker over that incredible void and munching a carrot and poison-ivy poison-ivy sandwich. The Grand canyon certainly would have been such a swell place for throwing your old George Bernard Shaws. With war-clouds thickening on half of Europe's frontiers not to mention Asia's the League of Nations Na-tions Is functioning as usual. In other words. It Is to menacing armies what a weather-vane is to 1 the weather. IRVIN S. COBB WNU Service. |