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...Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent," "embarrassed" young man ! That is perfect nonsense, and anyone with half an eye should know...
Professor Lyman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Geographical Society...
Earle E. Liederman and the rest of the man-builders may shortly find themselves with a royal client. George V, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India and so forth, has finally taken a good look at himself as others see him and is evidently ill pleased at the spectacle. The royal portrait by Charles Simms, R.A., which was recently exhibited in New York has been withdrawn from the Royal Academy by official request from Buckingham Palace...
Given the regrettable fact that the king, defender and emperor as aforesaid, is decidedly short in stature and slight in build, the reason for his discomfiture is not far to seek. The Simms portrait exhibited him seated in all his royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture...
...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...