The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-29

time you drift down Main street to the Bijou-Dream Theater and there flashes across the silver screen few thousand feet of film portraying a king riding in triumphant pomp and ceremony while his loyal lieges dance and shout and strew his pathway with flowers, you just turn to your "sweetie" and say:
 That there picture never was taken in London. They don't make that much fuss about king over there"
 And you will be as right as a West ern Union clock. They positively do not make much fuss over a king in London, whether it be their own king or somebody else's.
 The pomp and ceremony is there in gobs when the King and Queen of England ride forth on state occasions. Royalty throws show" that is worth looking at There is enough gold and glitter and feathers and fuss about a state procession to make a drum major in the worlds greatest circus tear his hair in baffled, envious rage
 But the "tumult and the shouting" that is supposed to emanate from the populace just naturally does not emanate. Jack Dempsey riding up Broadway can get more tumult out of one block of a Broadway crowd than King George and Queen Mary can raise in a procession that travels near ly mile.
 The writer twice has witnessed the King and Queen of England travelling in gorgeous state from Buckingham Palace to Westminster, where they opened Parliament. Purely as a spectacle the procession leaves nothing to be desired. It is just about the last word in splendor. For those who love magnificent pageantry it is l thrilling spectacle.
 But these royal processions fall a ong way short of being great dramas )f human emotions. There is about IS much enthusiasm manifested as De drummed up at mid-week game between the Philadelphia Athletics 1 lnd Boston Red Sox.
 The English turn out in fairly large numbers to see their King and Queen 90 by. At the last opening of Parlia- nent there were between 50,000 and 100000 people massed along the route if the procession. There were bands, ,ayly caparisoned soldiers, shoals md shoals of policemen and 8 fair prinkling of lords and ladies of high legree riding in their carriages and motors. Some of the watches had een waiting two or three hours for he royal pageant to appear.
 Yet when the King and Queen, rid ng their glittering gold coach of state, rawn by eight prancing and gaudily edecked horses, hove in sight there 5 only one word that can describe the demonstration" That word 5 feeble.
 As the regal equipage passed the ommoners, massed along the line of 1arch behind the walled-in-ranks of oldiers, let off a few innocuous heers. The men raised their hats, nd the women waved their handker- hief. The cheering was all perfecly ecorous and respectful. There was othing ribald about the proceedings. tut as spontaneous outburst of popu- ar acclaim, as a wild, tumultuous reeting to a pair of beloved sover- igns-well, it was not that by any means.
 It might also be said that the re- ponse from Their Majesties to the welcome of the populace was hardly calculated to provoke enthusiasm. Queen Mary, who seemed to more or ess dominate and permeate the in- erior of the regal carriage, bowed ,tiffly and without the leaven of i gracious smile to her assembled sub- ects. King George, although with slightly kindlier light in his eyes, quite evidently took his cue from his con- ! sort, and his response to such cheering IS was proffered was diginified but restrained.
 The English people tell the visiting or the resident American that they ove their King and Queen and that King George and Queen Mary are popular. That may be true, and per haps tumult of affectionate regard surged in the breasts of the assem- bled Britishers. The surging, how ever, was by no means tidal wave of emotion, for it did not even seep through the wall of stolidity behind which the watchers so successfully whatever feelings the spec iacle aroused within them.
 Perhaps it was the weather--fol' it