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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11111, 8 May 1911, Page 9

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; : PRINCESS AND THE BOY. A boyish experience in which figured the late King and Queen Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) is related by Mr. Ford Maddox Hueffer in "Harper's Magazine." It was at an afternoon concert in London, to which he, a child in gueeii velveteens; red stockings, and long curls, had been taken by Mr. Rudall, critic for "The Times." The first row of the stalls had been removed, and three gilded armchairs substituted, and presently from the entry of the Artists' Room advanced the Prince and Princess, escorted by the Abbe Lizst. The writer recalls that—'

"Applause volleyed, it rolled round the hall; people climbed on to their chairs, waved programmes and hats, and shouted. For in the dark entrance thero had appeared, white and shining, a head with brown and sphinx-like features and white and long hair, and the eternal wonderful Jesuit's smile. Thoy advanced, these three, amidst those tremendous shouts and enthusiasm —tho two royal personages leading tho master, one holding each hand. They approached the gilded armchairs immediately in front of me, and tho Princo and Princess indicated to the master that he was to sit between them at the table covered with flowers. Ho made little pantomimes nf modesty; he drew his hands through their grasp i ho walked quickly away from tho armchairs, and, because I was just behind them, he suddenly removed 1110 from my seat, and left me standing under all the eyes, solitary in the aisle of the centre of the hall, whilst h;> sat down. I do not think I ivns frightened of the eyes, but I. know I was terribly frightened of tho great brown, aquiline face, with the piercing glance and tho mirthless, distant, inscrutable smile. And immediately just beside 1110 there began what appeared to be a gentle and courtly wrestling match. A gentleman of tho royul mite 'iiiproacbed Hie master. Ho refused to move. The Prince approached the master; he sat indomitably still. Then the Princess came, and, taking him by the hand, drew liim almost by force out of my stall. For it was my stall, after all. And when ho was onoa upon his feet, as if to clinch the matter she suddenly sat down in it herself, and with a sudden touch of good feeling she took me by tho hand—the small solitary boy with the golden curls and the red stockings—and Rat mo upon her lap. There is a passage in Pepy's Diary in which ho describes how, who nthey were making r.onio alterations in Westminster Abbey, they disturbed tho coffin of Jane Seymour. Jlr. Pepys took up tho queen's skull, and hs kissed it on the lips. Then lie recorded in his diary:—"Tt was on such and such a date in such and such ii year that I did ki<=s a queen." T, alas! have no trace of the date on which I sat in a. queen's lap.

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No fewer limn Ihrre new one-act plays by women dramatist? ate to be produced n't the Court Theatre parly this month. Those are: ".Tack and Jill nml a Friend." by Mi.-s Cicelv Hamilton: "In the Work-lunt-e," by Manraret Wynne Novin?on (Mrs. 11. W.- Ni-vinain); and "Tho First Actre=-v" by Miss Christopher St. John, in which Jtifs Ellen Terry will appear.

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