Imaginery Interviews: May 12, 1923

Charles E. Hughes: " I attended a skit of the State Department Dramatic Club in which I was represented on the stage. Asked an interviewer : ' Mr. Secretary, can you tell us the height of the Washington Monument ? ' My double replied: ' Really I can't comment on that; but I may say confidentially that it is said to be 555 feet high.' "

Ex-Governor Allen of Kansas: "I am visiting in Greece and have been received with great éclat by King, Ministers and populace. Says the Embros (Athens paper): 'No foreigner in history ever...

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