Foreign News: Yellow Earl

Yellow are the racing colors, the motor cars, and the silk hats of footmen in the service of "The Yellow Earl," Britain's beloved sporting peer the Earl of Lonsdale.

Because he ran away from his family to become a circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and...

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