The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-08

Invitation issued to Miss Eleanore B meet Europe's most eligible young bacl scription of the hospitals needs. The Prince interrupted:
 q am well informed, madam. I will ask anything further wish to know" Retires In Tears
 It was too much for the poor wom- an. She retired in tears. There was onl.- silence in the wake of the Prince as he passed the long line of cots from which sufferers raised in feeble at- tempts at salute.
 Suddenly he stopped at the foot of a bed on which form lay still. Of the man between the blankets only his eyes and lips were visible. The rest of his head was swathed in bandages. Only the eyes moved as they followed | the royal visitor. A committeewoman | would have spoken of this man, but an equerry held her back. The Prince looked at the card hung at the foot of the bed and read the record:
 Leg and arm amputated at Pas chandale. Shell shocked. Scalp and 1 face burned and infected complete paralysis"
 H. R. R. turned il to the side Of the cot and stood, silent, motionless, gazing down into the eyes that met his steadily. The committee and attend ants stood by, hushed. After long time r. w. bent down and planted a kiss on each eye. He turned then to resume his inspection, pausing just an instant to check any recognition of his tribute by sweeping the whole com mittee with a glare that was freezing.
 But the story of ''the kiss of a prince" was told throughout England l within the week. It reached the far !l thest colonies. Dean Inge of St. Paurs, defied an objection from the Princes household and preached a sermon about it. Even the descendant of convict at the one time prison camp in British Guiana sent his pittance, three Mexi- can silver dollars, to the hospital at Leeds. Ex-soldiers in England will go q long way to prove how popular the Prince is with them, and the crowds at Leeds will swear that their dignitaries we'll deserved the snubbing they got.
 ''TO Put One Over"
 Enterprising American movie men were resolved to put over," as none ever had been, an American film, es- pecially costly and featuring bright American star. After long negotiations, H. R. H. consented to appear, formally, at the opening performance. Incidental ly the packers of the film contributed E5,O0 or $25,000, to a charity in wkich London is especi, fly interested, set aside the London receipts of the picture for tn. same cause.
 The audience was made up of dis tinguished persons. His Royal Highness arrived, greeted the committee in rare good humor and went with his retinue to his box. He responded to the ova- tion from pit and stalls and all seemed we'll for the American film and it's ambitious star who, it was rumored, proposed to pay England visit on the wave of her royalty inspired popu- larity.
 Suddenly the audience stirred in it's seats. A scene was being shown on the screen in which-well, one must not be too definite! A young lady's foot and ankle, and rather bit of her stocking, protruded from behind bou- doir curtains. And the young lady at the other end of the foot was supposed to be an ancestress of England's royal family, not one of unblemished report, but still an ancestress. Curious eyes turned up to the Princes box. The movie gentlemen stopped wringing their hands in self-satisfaction when they, too, looked up at what the audience say. The Prince had turned away from the picture on the screen and was chat ting with his attendants who, it ap- peared, seemed unware that they were supposed to be watching a photoplay. At the end of the picture the Prince ordered his car drawn up at a back entrance to the theater so that none might observe his departure.
 Something Else Again
 It was different with an American play, comedy, which opened in Lon don after a long career in New York. On the first night the British audience was thrown almost into a comatose state by the discovery that one of the gentlemen on the stage was toasting the king in the stage drawing room! And, additional horrors, with a cocktail
 It's not right to toast the king in a drawing room. King Alfred fixed the proper place to toast king, when he presided over the Round Table. It's done just after the sweets at dinner and while the coffee is being served. And never with such a foreign con- coction as a cocktail.
 Someone got up and left the theater. It was an earl or something. Then someone else, with woman companion, moved quietly down the aisle and out. At the final curtain the stalls were half emptied and the play seemed doomed.
 But it was a good play, and the I American stage hosts are not supposed to know that even in the excess of good wishes for the British king they mustn't t drink his health in their drawing room or use anything but port, or sherry, or brandy straight, or something custo- mary. And they were good fellows, those ladies and gentlemen from America's stage; they were frightfully sorry about the faux pas when they un- derstood it. A plea for help was re- layed to St. James Palace.
 There was scant attendance on the second night; only those appearing who had bought seats in advance and couldn't afford to waste the money. Those who did go, however, recognized the Prince of Wales, close to the. rail in the most prominent box, seizing ev- cry opportunity to applaud. All nights afterward, for many months, the thea ter was crowded; the play was one of the seasons most successful.
 While these stories are being told and retold, aloud, there is whispering in the clubs in Mayfair. One of the famous whispers is that of the skylight at St. James Palace