FRAYED TEMPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 7

FRAYED TEMPERS.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL ANGRY. TORONTO, June 8. The Governor-General (the Earl of Bessborough), Mary Pickford, and the Mayor of Toronto (Alderman Stewart), figured at the week-end in an incident tlint left frayed tempers. Mary, who was born in Toronto, is visiting relatives, and is being given great attention by the newspapers. She was accorded the freedom of the city by the Mayor and aldermen. She had not quite finished her visit to the City Hall when the Earl and Countess of Bessborough arrived to give their official blessing to Toronto's centennial celebrations. The Governor-General appeared on the reviewing stand before a huge gathering, expecting an official reception, but the Mayor put in an appearance 10 minutes late. He rushed forward to greet the Gover-nor-General, who would hardly acknowledge him, and who remarked, "You had better go on with your Mary Pickford show. 1 ' The Mayor's reply was inaudible to bystanders, but evidently it annoyed Lord Bessborough very much, for he threatened that he would report the whole matter to the King. "Just please yourself, sir," replied the Mayor. The party then went to Toronto's old fort museum, but Lord Bessborough angrily refused to sign the visitors' book. Newspapers allude to the Gover-nor-General's ''lack of diplomacy," and demand that the whole matter be thoroughly investigated.