The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-19
ROUMANIA QUEEN
is CALLED HOME


Continued from page One)
Moldavian battlefront in 1917 COT
ZOFANESTI! The word that has
held the whip of the terrorist sus-
pended in mid air, that has caused
prime ministers to turn suddenly pale
and that has a magic effect in the
fascist-controlled parliament of Rou-
mania-this word the queen heard
and read from banners held aloft in
the driving rain-And she was afraid.
The crowds of curious thousands
who stood in the puddles in Michigan
Blvd, and the Illinois Central depot
approach Saturday night to get a
fleeing glimpse of a real queen felt
the tenseness created by the shouting
of this word. Their curiosity gave
way to a sense of tragedy in the air
as the brave band of one thousand or
more workers carried their slogans
high and voiced their convictions on
royalty and rule by terror.
Four Police Charges
But it was the drawn batons of the
police that completed the picture.
Four separate charges of the blue
coats upon the manifestants, all work
ers and most of them citizens of "the
land of the Free" gave the finishing
touch to the comparison between the
royal life guards of Bucharest tearing
with their sabers into peaceful meet
ings of workers and peasants weary
of absolutism and the Tightening of
the blue Gordon around workers vOic-
ing the same protests against the
same queen in the "cradle of liberty"
Three arrests were made. George
Maurer, secretary of International La
Dor Defense, the organization which
staged the demonstration, Marguerite
Miller and A. Zuris, both members
of the organization, were taken to
Central Station by Capt. Kelliher of
the first district who explained his ac-
ton by saying he feared they would
90 the Drake Hotel (where the queen
stopped) and cause a disturbance"
/. L. d. Leads Workers
One of these parades was broken
up and the banners confiscated. But
the manifestants pushed across Mich
igan Boulevard and into the front
lines nearest the queen to speak their
minds and let the queen and her es-
cort of Chicago plutocrats know that
they were not sharing in the abase-
ment before royalty that the whole
official show constituted.
The second police charge came at
the City Hall after the greeting" of
her highness when the 2 parades re-
formed and with recovered banners
paraded back through the loop to the
municipal building.
The street around City Hall was
strewn with broken banners. But they
had done their work and done 1t well.
Thousands upon thousands of persons
stopped to read the slogans: Down
With Queen Marie" "Ouly in Amen-
ca Does Royalty Get Support" eve
Fought Royalty in 1776, Why Do We
Paw Homage to a Queen ?" "Remem-
her Cotzofanesti," "Down With the
Bloody White Terror Of the ROuman-
ian Monarchy" eve Stand With the
Prosecuted Workers and Peasants OF
Roumania," "Release the $500 Po-
litical Prisoners in Queen Marie's
Country" and many more.
Flat Welcome
Amid the booming Of camera flash
es and the glare of magnesium flares
used by the movie men, Queen Marie
made her unpleasant way through
lines Of soldiers standing at attention
in the corridors Of the Illinois Central
Station where her train pulled IN at
$3.50 p. M. Saturday.
Two hundred soldiers from Fort
Sheridan and five hundred disgruntled
policeman were the guard of honor.
AS the Queens party marched through
the waiting room curious bystanders
looked merely curious and that was
all. There was a noticeable absence
of cheering and enthusiasm.
Arrangements Flivver
Everything was done to give the
royal entry a touch Of real European
pomp and circumstance. The arrange
ments flivvered from the very start.
The plug hated dignitaries, rear adj
mirals and major generals who were
on the station platform to hand her
roval highness down from the steps
of her luxurious car had to run the
length of the platform in obvious dis
order to get to the unappointed place
at which the special train really stop
ped.
Iieutenants Balled Up
Young army lieutenants, many Ot
them not without a pre-Volstead arc
ma in their painting breaths, flew
hither and yon about the station
irving to get some sort of order in
the proceedings. 1t was plain that
half of them had forgotten their IN
sf1uctions and that the other half did
nj care much. The only thing the
Young military men succeeded In 40
mo was to drive away the delega-
tion of costumed Roumanlans VINO
were to meet their royal lady as she
stepped from the train and to walk
all over the feet of the rear admlrals
and majOr-generals.
Top Hatters Ignored
And the innumerable top matters,
members of the mayors committee
local plutes, consuls Of various LANDS
(the little Japanese Consul was no,
ticeablv impressed) the gold Draldeo
admirals with four pound epaulets
and the near generals weighted down
with silly medals-they didn't nave
much of a show either. AS soon as.
Marie alighted, the camera men, some
Of them on top Of the train, tore
loose. It was bedlam. Her koyal
Richness was surrounded with secreV
eervice men Zone of them treated your