A LAMPOON

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 31 May 1923, Page 7

A LAMPOON

... Of England’s Prince. NEWSPAPERS’ PROTEST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT London, Alay 29. The “Daily Express" protests against an extraordinary cartoon oi the Prince of AA r ales in the Alax Beorbohm Exhibition in the Leicester galleries. The Prince is represented as a wretched old man, white haired, standing forlorn before a table in a registry office, looking disconsolately at his bride, a woman in gaudy clothes. His suit of coarse worsted hangs like a sack.

It is entitled: “Long choosing; beginning late.”

' Air Beerbohm adds the inscription, purported to be an extract Irom a newspaper dated November, 1972: “Interesting wedding quietly celebrated at a registry office, when Alistcr Edward AVindsor was United to Aliss Flossie Pearson. The bridegroom, as many of our elder readers will recall, was at one time the wellknown heir apparent to the late King Georgee. Ile has for some time been in residence at Balmoral, Lenin Avenue, Ealing. The bride, who is i still on the sunny side of forty, is tfie daughter of his landlady.” The “Express” comments that Air Beerbohm as a rule is humorous, but in this case humour has deserted him. ; The public does not object to goodhumoured caricatures, hut when one takes the Heir Apparent to the throne and lampoons him, it is doubtful whether the public will relish 'the effort.—A. and N.Z. Cable.