The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-08

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 Princess Mary Astor of the Holly wood Astors, and setting Amer ica,s Sweetheart, Marchioness Mary Pickford-Moo -Fairbanks- Rogers, right in the eyes of the readers of these columns, l thought I had done my stint TOT royalty. Besides that, in addition to reluctance the item of ignor- ance entered in. I do not know even at this late hour whether Wally comes from the Simpsons of Maryland's East Shore, of Long Islands North Shore, or Massa- chusetts' South Shore. I am posi- tive however, that she is not re- lated to the Hock-Shop whose coat of arms, three gilt balls ram- pant on a field of pawn-tickets, has been displayed for several generations in downtown New York and on West Forty Second Street hardby Broadway. I am equally certain she is neither kitn nor kin to the Roast Beef-and- Yorkshire Pudding Simpsons who established their internationally known eateries in London about the time Britons ceased painting their bodies blue and began paint ing their noses red, and whose Thursday night special Bubble and-squeak" is held by all true Englishmen in respect scarcely less sacred than that entertained for the monarchy itself. Wally might trace her family back to Sir James Young Simpson, the em- inent Scots physician, who first introduced ether as an anaesthet- ic into England back in 1846 and a year later employed chloroform to put his patients to sleep. If she can hornswaggle that genealog- ical hook-up with a peer, even If he was only a sawborns. 1t looks as if the objection to her being a "commoner" would collapse and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is out on the end of the well known limb. Be that as 1t may I'll lay five bob with anyone that Wally wishes she could clap an ether cone over the combined shoot or His Majesty's cabinet and keep 1t there from now on.
 
 Chats and Camels
 It looks to me as if there is an ace buried somewhere by someone in the game of freeze-out which is now being played in London and in which the whole world is kabitzing. Somehow I have the suspicion that there is much more than meets the eye in the entire mess and that the kick-up over Eddie's anticipated marriage to Wally is only so much Piccadiliy fog to obscure the real issue. Too much emphasis has been laid on the point that the objection to Waliy is not because she is an American and a "commoner." One English newspaper has char acterized the emphasis as being so much eye-wash and declared that if she belonged to the British ar- istocracy there would be no such to-do about her two divorces. The fact that Wally has been matri- mentally vaccinated twice, that the vaccination did not take eith- CT time and for that reason she can never be England's queen seems to me to come under the head of straining at a gnat and swallowing 8 camel.
 Precedent
 Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is not only "king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Of all the British Dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India, ct cet- era, ct cetera." He is also Head of the Established Church of England, whether he likes it or not, and the objection to his mar riage to a divorcee IS ostensibly founded on that ground. Which, in the light of the past Is a bit inconsistent. Whatever other causes there were for the estab" !ishment of the Church of Eng land one is definitely recognized by historical scholars as the im- mediate factor in the breach with Rome:-the desire of Henry the Eighth to get rid of his validly welded wife, Catharine of Aragon, in order to take on the Maid in Waiting, Anne Boleyn. and after her such other eye-filling damsels as appealed to his amoroiis, errarlt lamps. That Henry did not both-