Legs Too Long !
Danish King’s Admission I feet five iunhes tall is a certain grave, punctilious sentleman who was lolling at full length one ftpflSYMfc/A evening recently in an aisle seat of a theatre at Cannes, smartest resort on the French Riviera. z
“Make room!” cried a dark, pudgy gentleman. “Make room!” And he tried to edge past the tail lolling gentleman toward a seat in the middle of the row. “Not so fast, sir!” said Long Legs. "I will rise and let you through.” “Pardon me, sir!” mumbled Pudgy Paunch, as Long Legs rose and stepped into the aisle. "Pardon me.”’
“Not at all —not at all!” said King Christian X. of Denmark. “I am too long. I know lam too long.” His Majesty and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark had arrived in Cannes after a State visit to Madrid.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 18
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140Legs Too Long ! Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 18
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