Jubilee

P:King George and Queen Mary were gratified when the Socialist majority in the Scotch town council of Greenock which voted last month to boycott Their Majesties' Silver Jubilee (starting May 6) were defied last week by the council's loyal minority. Manifestoed the minority: "In order that the children of Greenock may not be denied the pleasure of celebrating along with their brothers and sisters throughout the Empire, a committee has been formed to organize local observances the extent of which depends upon the response to this appeal for funds."

P:Since the Royal person will be indispensable at jubilee observances all summer, doctors busied themselves last week with the 69-year-old King-Emperor who has resolved to exert himself once more to the very limit. Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary's Mistress of the Robes.

That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom cab."

When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio set, especially brought down from Buckingham Palace.

P:To get busy with 550 English, Welsh and Scottish Mayors and provosts on the Silver Jubilee, Edward of Wales was recalled last week from Vienna and Budapest where he has been sporting with a mixed party of twelve gay friends featuring charming, horsy, Baltimore-born Mrs. Simpson* and her aunt.

Dawdling en route last week, H. R. H. visited Germany for the first time since the War, led his merry friends right royally around Munich's industrial museum, sniffed perfume samples and grinned at the famed model furnished by Pullman Car Co. Not knowing what to do with the doll Negro porter, Munich museum authorities tucked him into an upper berth.

After leaving Munich and making a last night of it in Paris, H. R. H. turned up in St. James's Palace, told the 550 Mayors that, "In common with you all, I am concerned for boys and girls after they have left school, during the difficult time up to the age of 18. . . . There is no sadder sight in the world than aimless, dispirited youth."

The Mayors voiced warm approval when Orator Wales proposed that money be collected "for a new fund to be called King George's Jubilee Trust For Youth." Listeners, wondering on what this money will be spent, heard H. R. H. read with feeling the part about "A new Youth Movement, non-militaristic but social!", then the part about "there is no intention to create any new juvenile organizations." The Jubilee money will be split, it presently appeared, among the Boy Scouts, the Girl Guides, the Church Lads Brigade and such.

*Nee Warfield, she was named Wallis after her father who died when she was three. She divorced her first husband who is today Commander E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U. S. N. Since 1926, when she married her present husband, Ernest Simpson (Harvard '19), Mrs. Simpson has resided sumptuously in London, lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway.

In Budapest graceful Mrs. Simpson startled Hungarians with a dinner coat of multi-colored woven and spun glass, danced the Gypsy Czardas with H. R. H., a single enormous diamond sparkling in her hair.

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