Evening star., 1939-05-23
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. TUESDAY MAY 2s 1889
0uinis Take Charge
OF Audience With
Royal Visitors
Etiquette Is forgotten
As Dionnes CIumor
To Kiss Queen
BY PHYLLIS GRIFFITHs.


TORONTO, May % (N.A.N.A).-
Five identical dressed-up adorable
little girls threw their arms around
a STOPPING lovely lady and kissed
her smackingly, and Queen Eliza
beth Of England kissed each Dionne
Quint warmly, while King George,
whose wards they are, looked on
beamingly.
George and Elizabeth had been
the bosses of their royal tour until
they met the Misses Dionne yester-
day. Those friendly and impetuous
little ladies promptly took charge.
True, they did their long -rehearsed
curtsies demurely and correctly
when their majesties greeted them
in private chamber of Toronto's
Parliament Building, but then they
tossed the etiquette book out of the
window.
AS the Queen bent down to speak
to the white-frocked little prin-
cesses of Canada's Northland, Cecile
fairly threw herself upon her Brit
tannic majesty, flung plump, dim
Piled arms about the pearl-girdled
royal neck and kissed her.
King Gets Bouquet.
Far from being affronted, Queen
Elizabeth kissed Cecile's round, pink
cheek and patted her dark, curly
head. BY this time. the other
quints were clamoring for their
turn. Moi, moi" they cried, and
so the Queen kissed Yvonne, An
nette, Emile and Marie in turn, and
they her.
Meanwhile, King George was look
ing on smilingly, as were Pere and
Mere Dionne, DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe,
the quints' doctor; their two nurses
and one teacher, and the Premiers
Of Canada and Ontario, w. L. Mac
kenzie King and Mitchell Hepburn.
Yvonne seemed to think his mai
esty was being left out of it, for she
danced over to him, smiled up into
his tanned face and confidently
slipped her hand into his. The King
leaned down and whispered some
thing in her ear and they laughed
together.
This brought Marie over, and she
handed the King frilled old-fash-
ioned nosegay she was carrying. It
was OF yellow pansies, yellow being
her favorite color. The other four
gave their bouquets to the Queen.
Each quint had her own special
shade of flowers in her nosegay-
Annette, green: Cecile, blue; Emile,
rose; Yvonne, mauve.
Gift for Princesses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dionne didn't mind
the quints getting the bulk of their
soyereigns' attention. The King and
Queen had shaken hands with them
at the outset. After 10 minutes of
quint playing, the Queen talked to
Mrs. Dionne and the King to Olivia.
Both conversations were in French
and both about one thing they have
in common-children
Yvonne interrupted by calling out
her own name. and, in a second
every one of the quints was doing
the same. The quints wanted to be
sure Their Majesties knew which
was which.
DR.. Dafoe handed the royal couple
a photograph album containing 10
big pictures of the quints and him.
self, and a quint-autographed (or
quint-scribbled copy of the menu
on the "Quintlander," special train
which brought them the 2l5 miles to
Toronto for the command presenta-
ton. The album is lettered: ITO
Their Royal Highnesses the Prin-
cesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose
from the Dionne quintuplets."
In return, Queen Elizabeth pre-
sented the quints with five little blue
wool coats she had brought with
her as gifts to the French-Canadian
children in whom her princess
children are so greatly interested.
The quints looked adorable in
full stiff silk organdy gowns right
down to the ground and lace nit
tens to their fat elbows. They wore