The Washington times., 1923-12-19
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Herbert Kaufman

by Herbert Kaufman
" HE University of California
professor engaged in max
ing a collection of horse
specimens so that our future
progeny may become acquaint-
ed with an extinct animal would
DO well to save space in his
museum for a few royal photo
Tomorrow will be especially
interested in the portrait of
men who could once declare:
am the state" and get away
with it.
Such of their descendants as
still exercise authority already
marvel how grandfather work
ed the stunt.
George, of Greece, certainly
didn't inherit the formula.
Athens has just politely in
formed him that the country
snan,t need his further services.
Which closes the Danish chap
Ter in Hellenic history.
Lots More in the Bargain
Basement.
HIS princely cousins, Waldo
Il mar and Eric, are shrewder
readers of the times. Dispatch
eS from Copenhagen intimate
Waldemar's betrothaI to Miss
xlggo Green, of New York, and
EEc's forthcoming marriage to
Miss Booth, daughter of a
canadian lumber magnate.
:. Families, anxious to swap
timber tracts and blocks of
tax-exempt securities for para
graphs in the Almanac de
Gotha or coroneted note paper,
may find the market tempo
rarliy out of premier catches.
put a fuller assortment of ex-
allied titles is shortly scheduled
Tor the social bargain base
ment.
Those who don't want dukes
and earls for sons-in-law might
consider them as chauffeurs or
head gardeners. Study the
want ads" for court activities.
The Besf-Loid Plans of
Mice and Queens.
IF Tut-Ankh-Amen's resurrec-
4 tion is appreciably postponed
there mightn't be a crown wearer
left on earth to extend fraternal
greetings.
The day rapidly approaches
when the only kings that cats
can look at shall be found in
mummy cases.
Phlegmatic Holland and easy
going Scandinavia may probably
suffer puppet rule for another
generation and Britain bow to
one more Guelph.
But the shadow of democracy
hangs low over the Balkans and
fortifies Spanish-Italian senti-
ment for outright republicanism.
Tax-weary, cheese-paring peo-
pie can't afford the luxury of
nobility. Budgets don't permit
the indulgence Schools are bet
ter investments than palaces
the salaries of cars, sultans and
kaisers are required for hos
pitfalls, agricultural colleges and
child aid.
Queen Mary is advised to re-
serve additional guest space.
Jugoslavia seems due to discard
kings and throw further bunch
of relatives on her hands.
A Character for Phillips
Oppenheim.
MEANTIME Athens debates
U1 whether to adopt the French
plan Of government and take Sir
Boris Zarahoff for president, or
experiment with the American
system and VeniZelos.
Venizelos is, by all odds, the
subtlest contemporary states
man, but Zarahoff is the rich
est Greek that ever lived and
perhaps the widest.
Nobody knows the real story
of this amazing man.
Rumor asserts he hauled fire
engines through the streets of
Constantinople before he be-
came the controlling factor in.
Levantine trade, then mining
magnate, oil concessionaire,
railroad builder and majority
stakeholder of England's great
est munitions concern, and fl
nally assumed the role of a
super-Colonel House behind the
scenes at Versailles.
A rather convenient person
to have about the establish
ment.
King Harry the First of
Albania.
A LBANIA also searches for
"A an angel and, according to
report, invites our own Harry
Sinclair to drop around and
size up the job.
He, at least, could pay
butchers bills; which can hard
ly be said for poor old, pallid,
William of Weed, the last
sceptre grabber whereabouts.
Sinclair ought to take a
whack at it. He has apparent
ly exhausted the list of lesser
sensations. Besides, think of
having Zarahoff right across
the line for an occasional game
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