Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

~ 49,; about starting in to improve my
self with some book learning and
I started in on that girls book, THE Cradle of
the Deep" She was the girl that would just
walk up and slap shark in the face II he
started pulling any wise cracks at her. We'll,
buying that book got me into a book store.
Well 1 had no idea there was as many books
as there must be- Half the world that don't
know what the other half is doing, well, they
are writing books. Busy men that you would
think would have something important to do,
have got some book that they have written.
Well, had heard in a roundabout way that
Henry the 9th was a-having revival year, and
as was headed for Hollywood for couple of
years I says to myself I will read about old
Henry and see where all these movie gang got
their idea. I knew little about him, for years
ago in ziegfeld Follies we had Shakespeare
revival Cali the sketches were about things
he had written about)
"A ND Sam Hardy, the fellow that is so good
out in talking pictures he was Henry 9Th,
and we had six beautiful girls as his wives.
Marion Davis I remember, was one of them,
and she had one line to speak, And Hill OF
King was he" And always did say was
going to read about this old bird, if Congress
and Hef1in and Reed Smoot and his sugar
tariff will give me time.
There was a fellow named Hackett, they said
he had spent practically a lifetime Course,
everybody has their own idea of what life
time in England Isl just working on material
for this book.
Well, I don't know how long he spent. But
he sure come out with something. Talk about
suppressing books. would think they would
extinguish this one in England. Not because
the book is bad but this old Henry. Why, If
the English nobility have gone down in direct
line, and if King Edward and George, and the
Prince of Wales are all direct descendants OF
that old reprobate, I would rise up and say,
r mt of a
at ALL He was no forefather of mine.
Why, if somebody told all those things about
one of my ancestors, would take it up with
the AL Capone gang and wouldn't care how
much it cost me to extinguish him.
This old Henry was just an old, fat, big
footed chuckled headed baby He had an older
brother named Arthur. Oldest brothers got
everything in those days, a younger brother
was Just Democrat, he had to take what was
left. This Arthur wasen't well and he diden't
know much even when he felt good. England
wasen't much of a country. 1t stood just about
like the Red Sox in the American League. They
wanted to marry this Prince Arthur off to some
body with a pedigree. They found there had
been filly colt sired in Spain a few years
ahead of Arthur, but that whose mating might
add to the prestige of a fast-slipping organiza-
ton, so they got ahold of Queen Isabella OF
Spain. There was King along with her.
think it was Ferdinand. But they kept him
sitting on the bench season after season. This
Isabella is the one that man from Italy come
up and got her to back the first nonstop flight
of the Atlantic. He went in for safety, he
wanted a three motored job, he woulden't take
a chance on one ship going dead on him, SO he
made her fix him up with three. He missed
the whole of the American Continent, but found
San Domingo. The next man to find it five
hundred years later was Charley Dawes and
commission of financial experts. For Dawes
discovery he was made Ambassador to the tea
parlor of st. James.
Well, this Isabella not only had jewels to
pawn to back these cross-country tours, but
she had children to distribute around where
they would bring in the most revenue She
had landed one in France as Kings wife,
and one in Rome (whoever had it that day).
When nations in those days had nothing else
to do they would take Rome then sit and pray
for somebody to come and take it off their
hands.
WELL, they had daughter Catherine, so
wv about the best they could do with her
was an offer from England That was kinder