Evening star., 1926-10-19
MARIE WINS PUBLIC'S HEARTS
IN TRIUMPHANT ENTRY TO CITY
Graciously Appears on Legation Balcony
After Acclaim on Streets-Will
Not Go In Movies.


know. and she hopes Ito take to their
hearts" during the next few months.
For. said Marie yesterday in audience
granted three newspaper representa-
tivcs on the special train, she will
continue to be her royal self as long
as she is in this country. assuming no
incognito, and seeking none Of the
privileges Of the private individual.
Will Not Go In Movies.
"The people of America want me
here as a Queen. 1 believe" she said
to the Associated Press correspondent.
as the special train neared Washing
ton. Everybody knows me as
Marie, Queen of Rumania. That is
what l always am. and l have never
been a person to pretend to be what
L am not"
So she will not appear in the NOV.
ing pictures. except as they may
snap me in the street." said her
| majesty, for, she added, "a Queen
can't act in the movies, now can
she?"
There is no truth in the rumor
that l might appear in the moving
pictures" she replied to a question
Though I don't say 1 may not write
! for the films she added.
During her interview the Queen sat
IN an armchair near the rear win.
dow of her fiower-filled private car,
| the car of Gen. w. w. Atterbury,
president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
which has conveyed Marshal Foch
and other distinguished visitors on
their visits Of state. She still wore
the burgundy crepe Eown, the rope of
pearls and pearl earrings, the bronze
hose and slippers she had worn on
her arrival in New York yesterday
morning, but she had removed the
bronze and gold turban to reveal her
bronze gold hair.
Maryland Like England.
A wine-colored metal brocade shawl
lay across her lap. Roses, crysanthe-
NUNS and dahlias added their colors
to her wine and bronze symphony.
Princess Ileana, clad in gray-blue.
the color Of her eyes. sat opposite
her. and Prince Nicholas was nearby.
They had been looking out Of the
window at the flying Maryland land
scape. so like England, only larger,
and more highly colored," said Queen
Marie.
i've always wanted to visit Ameri-
ca in the Fall. as you call our Au-
tumn," she added. IT love the bright
October colors."
1T have been touched to the heart
by my reception today" she smilingly
began the interview she had granted,
after shaking hands with the re-
porters.
my welcome really seemed to
come, not alone from the State. but
seemed to smile at me. They seemed
really glad to see me. 1t made me
very happy
II thought the ceremony at the City
Hall in New York beautiful. See, l
am wearing the medal they gave me-.
and she pointed to the gold medal,
pinned to her gown. with Its crests
Of Rumania and of the United States.
do you know that the speech l
made to the mayor is the first one
ever made in my life?" she asked.
"I did not know I should have to
make it. and had planned nothing to
say. Then when 1 heard what the
mayor was saying. and how he was
speaking, apparently right from the
heart, 1 knew how I should reply.
mo. l should not have said that
was my first speech" she corrected
herself, "for I have just remembered
another I made-to Americans, too.
1t was to American doughboys in a
Young Mems Christian Association
hut in France in 1919. was trying
to tell them the difference between
democracy and bolshevism. Since then,
nearly every one has learned the wide
difference I knew it then"
May Write on Issues.
In reply to q question. the Queen
said she might write something while
she was here of the Bessarabian ques.
tion-"a very difficult one for people
on the outside to understand" She
said, too, that she might write some
thing Of Rumania's oil interests.
When the Queens train paused a
moment in passing through Baltimore.
the Queen exclaimed with pleasure at
the crowd waiting there to catch a
glimpse Of her. Smiling faces again.
she said. isn't it nice Of them?" She
stepped out on the observation plat
form. smiled and bowed, and permit
ted herself to be photographed.
At the end Of her first day the
Queen admitted herself to be a little
tired, and complained Of a slight
cough, for which the doctor in at
tendance on her special train pre-
scribed.