Georgia Peaches & Saud

Improving health has put pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely sunshine in the U. S. Embassy and it burgeoned with what London called "Georgia Peaches."

It seemed odd to aspirants in various parts of the U. S. who have been turned down for this year's Silver Jubilee Courts that three slips of girls from Atlanta, Georgia, two of the sub-deb age, should be presented at Buckingham Palace by sweet-faced Mrs. Bingham. Last week the reason seemed clear and harmless to a degree. In the line of duty Their Majesties are prepared to receive almost any female against whom nothing is positively known and who is sponsored by her country's envoy. In the South good Squire Bingham has few cronies closer than Judge Shepard Bryan of Atlanta. In turn Judge Bryan's Titian-haired, freckle-faced daughter Mary, of Oglethorpe University, has few chums closer than that peaches & cream sub-deb pair, Louise Richardson and Anne Alston. Twice has Anne Alston been crowned "Queen of the May," first at Atlanta's Washington Seminary and again this year at Ogontz, near Philadelphia.

Last week Judge and Mrs. Bryan were house guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham as Southern hospitality opened wide the door of Buckingham Palace and the three "Georgia Peaches" sailed in to drop deft curtsies to Queen Mary. King George was in bed with catarrh at Sandringham, the Duke of York in bed with a cold at No.145 Piccadilly.

On the dais not far from Her Majesty was the swart, striking young Emir Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and smoldering-eyed son of that kingdom's tall, ascetic founder and autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress.

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