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Your usually comprehensive magazine has miserably failed of late to expose or even mention the "exploits" — not to use a cruder term — of the Prince of Wales at Biarritz and Paris.
I have just returned from Europe (including Biarritz, Paris and London), and I know what I am talking about. The Prince is constantly allowing himself to be seen with persons such as —— —— and —— —— whom he even invited to private suppers at Biarritz. In a word, perhaps the most respectable woman of his own choosing with whom the Prince "plays around" is —— ——. . . .
When I was in London, I found that the Court considers the situation extremely grave. Whenever possible attempts are made to keep photographers from snapping the Prince, so that the pouches under his eyes and his general run down appearance will not come to public notice. Just at present when the United States is being glutted with such pro-Prince propaganda as H. R. H.* I depend upon TIME to paint the truth, the whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME — bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies.
If I subscribe to Good Housekeeping I can get a cookbook free, which is at least sensible although of course I have a cook book ! But what do you suppose I can get with the solemn Literary Digest? They offer me, perhaps as an antidote, the "complete works of O'Henry in one volume!" ("Free! Completely free!")
Needless to say I shall continue to read : Vogue, TIME, The Atlantic, Scribner's The Illustrated London News, Punch, Country Life and The Saturday Review.
MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN
Boston, Mass.
Blonde Sinner Praised
Sirs:
After seeing What Every Woman Knows.± I am just a bit peeved at your little publication. Who says that What Every Woman Knows is a play worthy of first consideration ? To my mind it is not half as good as The Blonde Sinner which I saw against the advice of your theatre column and enjoyed immensely.
While I understand how news of the world can be revealed from Cleveland, I do not understand how you can review New York shows from there.
EDWARD G. KING
Chauncey & Co., Stock Brokers
New York, N. Y.
TIME'S dramatic, music and art critics are resident in Manhattan. —ED.
Vitaglass
Sirs:
The evident interest of your readers in ultraviolet light and heliotherapy leads us to inform you that actinic glass which transmits this radiation is already available on a commercial scale.
"Vitaglass," the discovery of Mr. Lamp-lough (TIME, Nov. 1) has already been installed in several hospitals in the U. S. It is available through Vitaglass Corp., 50 E. 42nd St., New York City.
P. H. JENNINGS, President
VITAGLASS CORP.
New York, N. Y.
Denial
Sirs:
Mr. Bernarr Macfadden and the Macfadden Publications, whom I represent, have called to my attention an article which appeared in your publication under date of Nov. 1, 1926.