PRINCE IN FILMLAND
CAPTAIN’S REBUKE TO U.S. PRESS.
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LOS ANGELES. Sept. 30. A just rebuke was administered today bv Captain G. L. Coleridge, commanding H.M.S. Durban, m which Prince George is serving, to American newspaper correspondents who have been spreading highy colored stories of the Prince’s supposed doings ib the Hollywood film colony. _ - In replv to a message asking whether it was true tluj.tr “Lieut Windsor” had been reprimanded for slipping aivav to Hollywood- where he was supposed to be attending, a house party at) Santa Barbara, Capt. Coleridge wirelessed : . • ••• “I should be obliged if you would note that all Press reports concerning H.R.H. Prince George during the visit of H.M.S. Durban ,to Santa Barbara are unauthorised and completely without foundation.”
THE FAIRBANKS’ HOSTj When H.M.S. Durban was anchored at Santa Barbara, Prince George motored to Hollywood and . was the guest of Miss Mary Pickford and'Mr Douglas) Fairbanks, at their home Pickfair. • ' / . Anything to do with the British Royal- Family lias great interest;.fdr the American public and/in order to give “news value” to their accounts certain newspapers have endeavoured to make good stories out of-the/fact that the Prince visited the Fairbanks, and other film stars and danced with several of them,..
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10753, 26 November 1928, Page 5
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