Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-03

more One doesn't really have to tell you any
thing Just to talk to you, to say anything, is
enough Presto! Next day there's story telling
about all the things you thought were a deep,
dark secret locked away in your mind The
funny part of it is that the story is almost
invariably authentic. Sometimes slight polish
is put on the corners, but the basic facts are
all there. It's really amazing! A newspaperman
looks just like anybody else, but they all must
belong to clan of wizards, cloaked in the
unsuspecting guise of an ordinary mortal
What's the answer anyway?
The first question of his interview had me!
could only reply that to disclose our secret
would be to break the magic charm He laughed
and began to discuss newspapermen whom he
numbers among his acquaintances And there
are many He bought morning paper at the
newsstand in the hotel lobby. and carried 1t
into breakfast under an arm When he laid it
down on the table the headlines told glaringly
of the Spanish revolt and civil war | pointed
to the paper.
THAT doesn't interest you?" baited him.
"Oh YES. of course" he said, but only as it
interests you, that girl over there-eVerybody'
He nodded at a young lady eating raspberries
and cream at a nearby table, and in an aside,
She's a very attractive girl, too, isn't she 2
He smiled Then back again to the subject at
hand Those generals who are leading the
Spanish revolt" he spread the paper out on the
table pointing to the pictures of the rebel
leaders those men were trained by former
King Alfonso and thanks to Alfonso, they are
great generals I believe they will take Spain"
He looked at me and, reading my thoughts
mo, you're wrong! 1t is just as / told you
what happens in Europe interests me just as
casually as it does you. I'm a very enthusiastic
American now you know" This last proudly.
s%RINCE GEORGE speaks rapidly There is
r the tang of Oxford about him. He's the
aesthetic mental type, full of nervous energy
and enthusiasm. The West had quite captured
him, He has habit of jumping from one SUBJ
iect to another without warning, and the leap
from Madrid to San Francisco bothered him not
at all
81 have never known such charming hospi-
tality as have found everywhere in the West"
he enthllsed "And the scenery is as unique and
as wonderful as the people. Back in the ninet1es
my father visited San Francisco. you know. He
often talked of his trip to America. I'm in: the
West only on a brief business trip now, but ]
want to return here sometime as soon as
have chance. on vacation.
america is indeed great country!" he went
on How much better to be plain George Con-
stantine in America free as the air, unrestrict
ed without hamper on individualism, than to
be Prince Georgk of Russia I am fatalist in
that believe everything happens for the best
VINO can say tnat the RUSSIAN reVolutlon was
not for the best interests of everyone con-
cerned? That the great world depression did
not have its benefits. though it's difficult to see
how; or this present civil war in Spain! Would
l be as happy living the life of Russian prince
at court as l am as plain George Constantine
in America l don't believe l would"
Then, with his facility of switching almost
In the same breath from subject to an
other. he said:
you know my father was writer, too! No,
newspaperman, but he belonged to your same
clan He wrote under the name of K Romanov
One of his books in particular became very
well known. What we would perhaps call toda,
best seller. It was called King of the Jews