THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924
Prince of Wales Sees New I York Night
Life Disguised In Mustache, Knickers
Eludes Reporters and Detectives
As He Accompanies Toe-
Dancer Through Bright
Lights of Gay City
BY STEPHEN HANNAGAN
NEA Service Writer
(Copyright by NEA Service, Inc.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—The
of Wales, clad in knickers
and l>nif-.j.i>ose, wearing a Charlie
ChapftfeMustacne to disguise h ; s
ideawy, eluded reporters, Scotland
Yard men and secret service opera
tives to see night life in New York
with Miss Virginia de Lanty, a toe
dancer, whom he had met in London,
and Major Edward Dudley Metcalf,
his aide and secretary, the actress
revealed today.
W’hile the Prince frolicked, Long
Island society thought he was kept,
from its presence by an accident
to his motor car.
He flitted about the gay spots of
Greenwich Village, looked into
queer shops and, rubbed royal el
bows with other excitment seekers,
without once being recognized.
It accounts for one of the even
ings the Prince did not spend on
Long Island during his historic visit
to New York.
The tale would have been success
fully locked in the memories secret
chest of the pretty show girl, had it
not been for a lost pocketbook—the
ro-m! .wallet of H. R. H., being tend i
ed by his secretary, who spent his
fast evening in New York making a (
tour of supper clubs with Miss de
Lanty.
Found the Pocketbook
When the major discovered he
had lost the princely pocketbook,
with a list of the prince’s “things
to do tomorrow,” the police were
called. They hurried to the apart
ment but before they arrived the
missing pocketbook was found on
the floor of Miss de Lanty’s apart
ment. behind a radiator, where it
had dropped when Metcalf took off
his topcoat.
Had the pocketbook not dropped
from the secretary’s pocket, this
intimate story of the prince’s even
ing out might n?ver have been told.
“I was presented to the Prince
two years ago in London when I
was playing the ‘Tip top’ with the
Duncan sisters,” tells Miss de Lanty
her dark bobbed hair shaking a ges
ture and her transparent hazel eyes
flrwhing, “we taught him to relish
the great American breakfast dish
of h-im and eggs.
“Then he came to visit New Yo’’k
and I had no hope of seeing him
again. .But unexpectedly, at a din
ner party one evening. I met Major
Metcalf, whom I also had known in
London.
“Just Too Funny for Words’
“Shortly after I attended a polo
game and after the contest the'
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Prince, Major Metcalf and I drove
in to New York. We decided to
make the rounds of the Greenwic i
Village places. The Prince had sev-‘
eral engagements on Long Island
with people socially prominent, but
he said ‘I guess I will have to use
a broken-down car as an excuse to
remain in New York this evening. ’
And he did.
“We went to my aprrtment and
then started the tour. Instead of
taking the Prince’s private car,
which would be easyily recognized,
we went in a taxicab, with repor
ers and guarding detectives on our
trail. But our taxicab drive was
successful in losing them and they
never again caught up with us.
“The Prince looked just too fun
ny for words in his little disguise
mustache. We went from place to
place but nobody suspected the
identity of the Prince. He gave me
his wallet containing all his money
and I paid all the bills and gave
the tips. The Prince doesn’t know
much about American money He
thought half-dollars were dimes.
“He doesn’t. talk'much. He is
shy and unassuming. He is a good
listener though and asks many ques
tions that lead to long explanations.
The Prince called me ‘Dutch’ be
cause of my haircut. ‘I think you’re
awfully cute,” he told me, and when
I asked him 'why’ he replied, ‘Oh,
just because —you look like -a
Brownie,’
“When he was at my apartment
he was .very much interested in a
number of hats in my collection
He especially liked a small, blue one
—I guess tjiat is his favorite color
“I danced a lot with the Prince.
He likes to fits-trot best, but he is
a miserable waltzer. And I thin ■
Major Metcalf is a far better dan-?
er and more interesting. “Your Lps
tell me no-no, but there’s yes-yes in
your eyes’ is the favorite piece of
music with the Prince. He asked
me to hum it many times,”
Likes American Boys Best
The Prince paid a high compl’-
ment to American girls. “I think
there are many more attractive and
well-dressed girls in America than
in England, but there are more re-ti
ly beautiful girls in England,” Miss
de Lanty quotes him as saying. She
is 20, and comes from Los Angeles.
“I don’t think the Prince is hand
some,” the actress confessed, “but
he is cute and interesting and would
be even if he weren’t a Prince, bit'
I like Major Metcalf better. Ame
rican boys, however, are far more
thrilling than either of them.”
For all her thrilling experience,
Miss de Lanty is sad.
rier real boy friend—the one to
whom she is engaged—is out of the
city. She knows he will be d.s
pleased when he returns. The
Prince and Major Metcalf are gone
—but her sweetheart is returning.
That’s the scene that worries her
now.
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