The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-08
A New Yorker In Europe
By PAUL HARRISON

LOnuOu, June b--Oue OL IH0 laN- orite stories of the English is about the American who, involved in a lawsuit, asked his attorney whe- ther it might be a good idea to send the judge a case of cham pagne.
 The lawyer advised against it. of course, explaining that there was no surer way of losing the fight. So the American sent the champagne anyway-but in the name of the English company which was opposing him in court. There's now a similar yarn. vouched for as truth, about q couple of suitors for an actress hand. Sir Somebody or other, who wore a monocle, was getting much the best of it, when his rival had an idea.
 One evening the actress receiv- ed a package containing tooth brush, paste, and a cake of soap. Furious, she charged out to the doorman and demanded to know who had brought the package, 'E didn't leave no nyme, mum, was proper gentleman, wearin' an eye-glass."
 Laughing Matter
 ] Maurice Chevalier left Holly l wood in a huff, declaring he was 1 through with pictures and would stay in the music halls, where he belongs. am not one to argue about where MT. Maurice Cheval- fed belongs, but it is true that he already has a new film contract. and that. hes going into q London revue for a month or more.
 M. Chevalier really is quite a glum fellow--not all all the ex-- uberant playboy you may recall seeing on the screen. Not long ago, arriving with his press agent, the actor faced battery of movie and news cameramen. There was a good deal of preparatory scurry- ing around before they'd all be ready to shoot. Meanwhile the Il publicity man was reminding his gloomy charge that the boys
 would like flash of the old Che-
 valier smile.
 "The Chevalier smile." said its owner, dourly, twill be there
 when you need 1t. And not until" I s
 Dramatizing
 At No. 8 Robert Street, in Adel-
 phi Terrace House, Sir James Barrie sits and works for a new play for Elizabeth Bergner. It's finished, I'm told, except for few
 revisions--his first play in four
 teen years. c. B. Cochrane said
 that of three great artists he has Il known - Bernhardt, Duse and
 Bergner-the greatest of all is
 Bergner. Sir James thinks so, too. 1 Barrie has just turned 75, and I is known scarcely better today
 than when his career began. Shaw and Gaisworthy used to live in
 Adelphi House, but now only Bar
 rie remains. shy little Scot her init who almost certainly is tho
 wealthies author in the world.
 He's tiny, too, and dowdy looking in dress, and never smiles. There's I no guessing how many smiles Sir James works have caused, but journalists of Fleet Street who
 see him frequently say he always looks as though he had just come
 upon some sort of tragedy.
 His name is not in any direc- tory, nor on his door on the top floor of the building. Few people
 know what the interior Is like, One room has been remodeled and furnished like a stateroom In ship. The main study is very plain. with a few pictures, and, in the center of the room, the flat
 desk on which Peter Pan" was II written. Barrie and Kipling are inc most inaccessible celebrities in England, not counting the King and Queen.
 JubiIation
 l It's difiicult for Americans. who
 keep presidents for four or eight-year snatches, to appreciate
 what a celebration of a 25-year I rule means to the average British
 subject. There were people who
 paid hundreds of dollars to perch
 on the stands lining the Hall to
 see the Jubilee procession whizz
 past. Others stood for 24 hours
 in order to hold vantage points
 along the curbs. The city still IS
 filled with bunting, and especially constructed arches at the circuses
 and squares, and floodlighting on the buildings at night. Selfridge's, the huge department store started
 by an American, spent quarter
 million dollars on it's exterior dec-
 orations.
 | As an example of the faith and. loyalty of British subjects, I like the story about the two very
 small boys who went to . movie.
 stayed for Q second show, and 90 missed the friends who were to
 have taken them home. Dis traught parents called the police. and other friends tried to search
 the streets. But then came .
 telephone call from Buckingham
 Palace, saying the boys were ell
 right. 1 | Finding themselves without money for transportation, they had done what seemed perfectly appropriate in the emergency - they walked co the palace and | nmI.mM -u@a.a1I=sa .| IE- W[M~