Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

among D6OplG llG hlAOHos q EsF tplli-
panion. He will sit down at the pi-
ano and play for the dancers at
house party. He can go to a revue or
musical comedy-Wales and he are
often at shows together-and bring
back tune and play it from memory.
He reads-which Wales does not-and
when the Russian ballet was on in
town he used to go night after night
Wales was never there. He is no bal
let fan.
He has an eye for color and ideas
about decoration. He did not like his
suiie of apartments at Buckingham
Palace when he came back from
China, and had the whole old-fashioned
scheme changed for q modern one in
bright and vivid colors, and he went
looking for pictures for the walls and
found some very good water colors, the
nucleus of collection.
Wales, incidentally, had some talent
for sketching once. AsqJith, the Liberal
stateman, used to tell the story. 1t was
when he was secretary of state for the
home department in 1895 and Queen
Victoria was on the throne. He had
sent a state paper to the sovereign. 1t
came back bearing her signature, but
also carrying in the margin some marks
so mysterious that Asquith handed the
document around in~the cabinet room
with raised eyebrows.
No one could think OF an explanation
until it was recollected that tie Queen
was in the habit of having her little
great-grandson taken along to the pal
ace, where one of the rooms had been
turned into a nursery for him; and she
would often go and play with him. 1t
looked this time as if she had gone to
play with the infant with the state pa
per in her hand and had left the paper
q while For the hieroglyphics it bore
in addition to the signature of the SOW
ereign took the rough form of curly
tailed pig
Early Promise UnfulfiIIed. g
That early promise, however. has not
been fulfilled The only time the Prince
of Wales, grown TO maturity, used a
bencil for anything but necessary
writing was when he would absent
mindedly sketch little diagrams and
bid shapes until such time as inspira-
hon came Now he doesn't even do
that, because he uses a portable type
writer for all his essential personal
correspondence and notes except his
letters to his intimate friends.
George has q common bond with
Wales in fast motoring and flying.
Wales has a brace of cars FOR his per-
sonal use, a Rolls-Royce and small
roadster. Prince George acquired a
big black Bentley Six. the car which
has beaten everything in track and road
events over the last two wears in Eng
land and Europe. The Bentley has
whipped wheel and different ''feel'
altogether from a Rolls.
One day Prince George borrowed his
brothers Rolls and took a narrow drive
entrance at speed. Not being used to
the steering of the heavier car he
piled it UP on the gate post: whereupon
his irate elder brother grabbed "P. G.'s"
Bentley and held it for use until his
own came back from the repair shop.
Some time later Prince George sug-
gested he would like to borrow the
princes new private plane, $3.50
Cypsy-Mo with slotted wings Ito
prevent stalling) and crimson leather
upholstering. ooh, no, you don't said
his brother. II lent you my car and
you crashed it I'm taking no chances
with my plane. You can nave my old
one. If you break your neck in that ]
shan't mind SO much"
So George learned to fly in the old
Blue Moth that Wales had cut his fly
ing eyeteeth on. Squadron Leader Don,
the princes official pilot-he has an
other private pilot, one Fielden-took
George in hand.
Wales Possesses Adaptability.
Wales. reorienting his life over the
last four years, has made himself the
best living example of the efficient mod
ern prince Lean, brown. sinewy, active,
restless, adventurous, far-ranging en-
curing he himself is characteristic of
the new age into which mankind il
moving so fast that the entire world
is disorganized by the speed and range
of the great transition He possesses
# oil. Ia
ability.
He made the crossing from the war TO
thu postwar world with marked sue
cess. Dividing his life mainly between
his bachelor quarters in town and his
hunting quarters at Melton Mowbray
he seemed TO be sitting down with his
chosen circle, his favorite pastimes, his
preferred haunts and PLEASURES, his
round Of duties to a routine which
would endure until In due course, he
became King.
But if you look back you see that his
roots were never deep in habit. He
knows better than most men how to
manage himself. He is a good psy-
chologist-perhaps without knowing it.
Having the modern horror of fat. he
exercised StrenuousIy-too strcnuously.
He sweated too hard Playing squash
in heavy sweaters one day he nearly
himself to pieces.
He had to think. Luckily. he had
expert athletes around him-men who
know better than most doctors how TO
look after the human machine when 1t
is in its prime Consequently, today you
find him taking his exercise in the thin
nest things. No more heavy sweats.
He does not tear himself 10 pieces and
he has more endurance more vitality
ha had
before.
He was advised to give UP hunting
and steeplechasing. They We're his
passion How was n to make this-for
him-tremendous break? It meant,
too, separating from the friends 10
whose company he had become accus-
toned at this season.
He solved his problem decisively. He
took himself out Of the country when
the hunting season began. lie went on
a hunting and camping trip in another
part Of the empire lands. Next year he
did the same thing This year only
the South American trip has stopped
him from tufrd big game hunting
holiday in East Africa.
He Axtsndsd the range of his pastimes
to include golf cat which he used 70 be
no good. BY enlarging his bachelor
quarters at ST James Palace and PLAN
ming larger social life (his social con-
facts have always been very llberaD.
and by acquiring at last what he never
had before-a country house OF his
own on the edge of Windsor Park, not
far from. the huge old castle which is
one OF the four royal seats. In the
park he has his own private aerodrome.
Into the house he has imported some
of the new modernistic furniture and
decorations which are part of the pat
tern of the new age, and which, con-
sidered advanced and unique today,
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