Secretive Prince

A speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper. In it was a despatch from Manhattan, quoting Miss Anne Morgan (sister of famed J. P. Morgan) as saying that she considers "utterly without foundation and untrue" reports that she is engaged to Prince Louis. Paris papers had originated the story, had frenzied over the indisputable fact that His Highness would soon be in the same city with a great U. S. spinster whose wartime services have endeared her to France almost equally with that great U. S. widower, Myron Timothy Herrick (see p. 16).