Evening star., 1936-01-25
Edward VIII-The Bachelor King
P Became Prince of Hearts and Owls on His Incognito
Visit to America.
RY MICHEL MOK.


wv blond and frizzy. lived at
1 ' l 333 Edison place. Glendale.
Queens, and worked In the book
bindery Of Doubleday, Page q Co.,
Garden City. told IN incredulous
press that she preferred her sweetie
to the Prince Of Wales.
She made It pretty strong. too. She
said: American ooys are good enough
for me. Give me my American
sweetie every time. You can keep
your princes"
AL she would give H. r. H. who
had spoken to her on his tour Of
the publishing plant, was that he was
- snappy dresser" and - nice man."
Miss Grenner's utterances are re.
called here because they were the
only statements Of the kind made
by IN American female in the course
Of the princes American visit . little
more than II years ago.
Emotional Hurricane.
TO say that Wales sojourn fiuttered
the dovecotes would be to make one
Of the prize advertisements ct all
time. Seldom has such an emotional
hurricane struck the boudoirs Of the
Nation.
It began with Lenore Cahill Of st.
Louis, who danced many times with
the prince. or, rather, Baron Rem.
frew-he was travelling incognito-in
the Berengaria coming over and who
said that she almost died for Joy each
time he asked her.
It ended with Kitty O'Rourke, ele-
vator operator In the Woolworth
Building, whose heart almost stopped
when she had to take him ESQ
polite he took his hat OIL :.
oh. he's a darlin' y to the top OF the
tower.
And in between hundreds OF
girls, in and outside the Social Regis
ter, danced with him; thousands more
wished they could. Thousands Of
girls saw him: millions more would
have given a year Of their lives for
q close view Of him.
To everybody wearing skirts In
America. Long Island, where he was
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. James A.
Burden at Woodside, their Syosset
country house, became Mecca and
an Isle OF Romance and Delight.
Bargain Counter Scenes.
At the Piping Rock Club. at the
Meadow Brook Country Club. at Bel
mont Park. wherever he went to see
or play a game Of polo. attend
race, a luncheon, dinner, dance.
there milling mobs Of women pushed
ard jostled each other as though
they were storming bargain counter.
Through all this, Wales-blinking
his eyes, nddling with his tie, smil-
ing foxily-kept his composure, man
aged to have the time Of his life. He
dined with the Clarence H. Mackays,
the ]. P. Morgans. the Vincent Astors.
the Josh Cosdens and other notabili-
ties. He flshed. He swan. He played
golf. He got his second sinner this
first was administered 10 years before
by q classmate at Osborne Naval
Academy when he was struck by
polo ball. For a few days after that
he golfed, dined, danced with black
patch over his eye.
He never went to bed earlier than
4 O'Clock In the morning, often re.
tired at 6. Women called him the
Prince Of Hearts, but men. who liked
him better every day. called him the
Prince Of Owls. It was runored that
England's national flower was going
to be changed from the rose to the
night blooming cereus unofficially
anyway. He danced, danced, danced.
In London, where they aren't supposed
to have any sense Of humor. . new
ditty became popular. It began:
I've danced with a man who's
danced with q girl who's danced with
the Prince of Wales"
Tickles His Humor.
Friends sent q copy across to Ed
ward p. He read it, roared with
laughter, had jazz bands band leaders
try it. It never caught on here.
Like Col. Lindbergh In later years,
he proved an expert hand at dodging
reporters. Announcement would be
made to the press that H. r. H. would |
grace with his presence a dance to |
be given by the So-and-Sos.
Thither the reporters would, Of |
course, flock. But they would be told
that H. r. H. had just left to dance
a bit more at the Such-and- -Suches.
OF would trudge the footsore press,
to be informed at the Such-and- !
Suches that the prince had gone home !
and to bed, but would probably rise
early to participate in q fox hunt.
He never got within 10 miles Of q
RESORTS.
CUBA,