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Show KING'S COUSIN TOURS STUDIOS Lord Piloted About by Charlie Chaplin on West Coast Visit LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19. Lord Louis Mountbatten. cousin to the kins: or isnjflanil and his iriae. i..my ivi - , wlna Mountbatten, said to ! th. richest woman in that kingdom, arrived ar-rived here today on their honeymoon tour of the Tnlted States. His lordship gave to newspaper In-tervlewera In-tervlewera an illustration of his phrase "ghlng the bird," which sprang Into popularity after he voiced it In speaking speak-ing to Judge K. M. LandK baseball commissioner, In a world series contest con-test at New York. EXPLAINS TERM. "You ask for a definition of 'thi bird." " he said. "That's rather hard, tersely I should say that one receiving 'th- bird" has "let with something of a rebuke. It'3 something like 'giving him the raspberry.' rasp-berry.' you know I'm wild over your American r lantr " Lord Mountbatten say. he likes America and ail Americans, too. except ex-cept the New York and Chicago reporters re-porters who qifoted hint as auy'nr "My Word' " ' 'Pon my soul'" una ' Wot Wot' Wot!" He told Los Angeles An-geles reporters. j "Quote me ns sayln.; anvthlng at ! all, but don't make me talk like a ! London dUdi " . I I ;sT OF OH PLIV When ask d what h t though? about the movies after fie had iwi shown I about by Cli-lie Chaplin, hi fellow I countryman, his lordship did not say j "toppln'," "jolly well." "clevah," "rip-pin'," "rip-pin'," "bah jovc." or anything like that. He. ha id: , "They quite su rpasB: d jn y expectations." expecta-tions." When Chaplin was isked what he ithought of his lordship. the film ! comedian said: "He's such a nice, simple boy." |