AMONG HIS PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 9

AMONG HIS PEOPLE

THE PRINCE OF WALES

THRILLS FOR THE GIRLS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, loth December.

There were great scenes of enthusiasm at Stepney Green the other night when the Prince of Wales paid a surprise visit to a concert of the Mile End branch of the British Legion, held in Christ 'Church Parish Hall. Some hundreds of ex-service men were present. Tho Prince met many men who had been at Zeebrugge. Some of them are unemployed, and he expressed keen interest in their lot.

During an interval the Prince, on the invitation of Councillor J. F. Mead (licensee of the Bricklayers' Arms — whose work for London hospitals is well known)—went across to the tavern and drank a glass of ale. A number of people were in tho bar and the Prince shook hands with many of them. He invited some to have a drink with him. Going through a private entrance into the bar itself, the Prince drew himself a glass of ale =#nd drank some of it. The glass was then handed round.

The Prince returned to the concert hall, and stayed till the end of the programme. At the finish "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" was sung, as it was never sung before. A dense crowd cheered hi?;» as he came out, and his motor-car Lad to be pushed through the packed streets by willing volunteers. A club is to be erected for the "Mile End branch of the British Legion'from funds given by Mr. Teddy Hulton, and the Prince expressed his' intention of attending the opening ceremony in the spring.

PRINCE'S DANCING PARTNERS,

Another British Legion function attended by the Prince of Wales was a. dance, held at the Lambeth Baths. Evidence of the Prince's remarkable memory for" faces was given when he led»Mrs. M'Enroy (president of the women's section of the Legion and wife of Captain P. M'Enroy) to the dance floor for a fox-trot. "I think we have met before," said the Prince^ "Wasn't it at the Government ball at Madras in 1922?" Her husband was stationed in India then. The Prince said that he was very much pleased to see what the women's section of the Legion was doing.

A surprise invitation by the Prince to dance the Charleston with him fell to the lot of Miss Lylie Huckle, of Kennington, a pretty brunette.

"I was dancing with my fiance, when General Trotter, who was with the Prince, asked me to go on the platform to be presented to the Prince," she afterwards explained. • "The Prince was very charming, and asked me to dance. We started fox-trotting, but after a few moments the Prince led with the 'flat' Charleston. The Prince has completely mastered the Charleston, and is an ideal partnex-. I was a little nervous at first, but the Prince was so natural that he soon put me at my ease. That dance was encor-ed three times, so that the Prince and^l had four dances in all."

Although the Prince chatted most of the time; Miss Huekle remained silent on what he said. "I would rather not say what he talked about," she added, shyly. .

Miss Huckle, who is 20 and lives on tho Prince's Duchy of Cornwall Estate, is a cashier in a well-known firm of caterers. She made herself the black inarocain frock which she was wearing. The first news her family had of the honour she had received twas when a, newsboy called with a morning paper, in which was her photograph. Her parents were asleep when the happy girl got home.

Another of the Prince's partners, Miss Charlotte A. Ashton, daughter of a Lambeth Councillor and a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, who danced with him in the '' Paul Jones," declares that he is "a splendid dancer and keeps perfect time."

A sixteen-year-old sixth form schoolgirl, Miss Ada Pool, of, Bromley, was the Prince's partner in a waltz, but she was so excited that she had forgotten almost everything the Prince had said to her.

THE PAPER HAT.

When the novelties were distributed the Prince placed a paper jockey's cap on the head of Mr. G. Bartlett, the agent for his Duchy of Cornwall Estate. Later,/when he noticed that Mr.-Bart-lett was not wearing it, he asked, in mock-seriousness, "Bartlett, where's that hat?"

"Although the Prince was only supposed to stop half-an-hour he danced almost continuously for close on two hours," said Mrs. M'Enroy. His party included Lady Louis Mountbatten, Lady Erleigh, and Lord D 'Abernon.

The Prince of "Wales, who is an honorary member of the Alsatian Club of Groat: Britain, has recently bought an Alsatian wolfdog, a twonty-month-old sable, named Claus of Scale, from the kennels of Mrs. H. Howard, of Scale, Faruham. Mr. E. Barnes (secretary pf the Alsatian Club) states that Claus of Scale has won more than forty prizes at championship shows. He hopes that the Prince will exhibit the dog at the next show. There is no reason why it should not acquire championship status if it continues its show career. The Prince has always been greatly interested in the breed. This is his second Alsatian. His purchase will doubtless increase the popularity of this breed of dog.

The story is told that, after a countryhouse visit recently, a number of pairs of men's spats were found in various parts of the garden, hidden behind bushes. The reason for this general discarding of a smart and useful accessory of male attire was for a time inexplicable. It transpired, however, that the Prince of Wales, who was one of the house party, had. arrived without spats, so his fellow-male guests thought there was only one thing for them to do—namely, to discard them. The garden bushes seemed suitable ambush for the out-of-date ankle comforters.

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