After Grey North

THE DOMINION After Grey North

Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has just had his political ears clipped in the Grey North by-election (TIME, Feb. 12), took time out last week to honor his barber. With some 400 other workaday Ottawans, he attended a party for Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Tasse.

For 20 years big, jovial, redheaded Paul Tasse, 56, has been the talkative boss barber in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier barbershop. Now he and his wife were celebrating 35 years of marriage. Routhier School's hall was rented for the occasion and bedecked with barber poles. Prime Minister King helped welcome guests. Between homey speeches, an orchestra played selections from Barber of Seville.

"Red" Tasse walked on air. Said he: "The P.M. got his job just about the time I got mine, and I've been cutting his hair ever since. The P.M., you know, is an old bachelor, without any wife to check him up, so I always call his office about once every three weeks and remind him that it's about time for a trim. Shampoo? With that little fringe?"

Mr. King beamed happily. When not singing the praises of Barber Tasse's barbering, he laughed and wisecracked about his Government's defeat at Grey North (no laughing matter). Said Mr. King: Tasse "is a good Liberal, day in & day out, much better than those who were ready to celebrate [before Grey North voted], but who have been running around corners since." At last the Prime Minister summoned his chauffeur, clapped his hat on his unshampooable head, drove home.

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