Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-20
PRINCE Of WALES
ENJOYS MOVIES
IN NE ETR0P0LIS


New York. Nov, 19.--From sky
scrapers to churches and from the
stock exchange to the movies" with
the horse show as =. side line, the
Prince of Wales was whirled today in
a kaleidoscope view of the varied ac-
tivities of the metropolis. Everywhere
he went huge crowds cheered him,
giving him reception such as New
York rarely has ever witnessed
The prince seemed TO enjoy every
minute but, judging by appearances,
the hit of the day for him was the
movies"
The exhibition was given at the old
Academy of Music, where his grand
father had been a guest sixty years
ago at the historic Diamond BAH. "
Seated in the same arm chair, Edward
VII, had occupied, the prince laugh
ed, with the unrestrained enthusiasm
of an unsophisticated school boy, at
the two comedies presented. He had
asked for something to laugh att
and he got IT, 1t was slapstick comedy
of the slapstickiest kind with the hero
doused in rivers, smeared with pie,
bitten by dogs and butted by goats,
ana the infectious laugh of the young
prince set the whole great audience
rocking.
Present at the theater We're fifteen
survivors of the Diamond BALI and
they were presented to the grandson
of the prince they had met to honor
in their youth.
At Madison Square garden the
prince was the guest of Commander
Eva Booth of the salvation Army at
the horse show, the show being a benz
off nfr fhn ga lNtq tinn
Army.
The royal party passed to its box
through double lines of salvation lass
les who were no whit behind the more
wac'dlv sneetstors ir AAa warmth OF
their greeting TO the Doyish prince.
on his return OF the Waldorf Astor
hotel the prince stole a march on the
crowds and the small army of news
paper reporters who had formed his
unofficial bodyguard, Slipping out
from a side entrance he went for a
stroll on Fifth avenue, unattended ex-
cept by secret service men, He passed
virtually unrecognized through the
tremendous tide of traffic.
Tonight the prince was the guest of
honor at a banquet given by the yari-
Gus British societies of New York.
Later in the evening he attended a
ball given by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Taft Speaks at Dinner.
The worlds hope of peace and prog
ress has been, and will be, effectively
promoted by the cooperation of the
British empire and the United States,
according to former President William
Fl. Taft, speaking at the dinner to-
night.
THE time will come" he said,
when the people of the British en-
pire and the United States will be-
found marching in the cause and tri-
umph of worlds peace shoulder to
shoulder as they did in this war, keep
ing step to the air which they have in
America When Great Britain and
the United States stand together for
Righteousness, the world will find 1t
hard TO go wrong"
The prince provoked much laughter
when he said;
II thank you all for the kind way
you drank my health" The diners
sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
when he finished speaking.
The prince asserted that in coming
from Canada to the United States, he
felt he was we'll in touch with the
great objects of the Sulgrave institu
ton and the English-speaking union,
(which are, l understand, to keep
English speaking people working in
harmony throughout the world"
II console myself with the intention
of paying another visit to the United
States before very long" he said.
Other speakers inciuced Charles
Evans Hughes, Judge Alton B. Parker, |!
John H. Finley. commissioner of edu-
cation of New York state; President |
John G. Hibben of Princeton univer-
sity and Rev. DR.. William Thomas |
Manning rector of Trinity church