Letters, Jan. 12, 1931

"Iron Age" Readers

Sirs:

". . . and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron Age," says TIME, Dec. 22.

Proud are we of "august." Sorry are we that you employed the restrictive words "steel industry's." "Metal products industries' " would have been far more accurate, for but 12.91% of our subscribers are iron and steel producers.

The great bulk of our subscribers make finished metal products — locomotives, pins, automobiles, dish pans, ships, peanut roasters, plows, typewriters, machinery, T squares, metal beds, traveling cranes, can openers, furnaces. . . .

ARTHUR H. DIX

The Iron Age

New York City

Press-Evading Prince

Sirs:

I wish to call to your attention an error in a recent issue of TIME. You stated, under Great Britain caption, that Prince George was the youngest son of Britain's king. Not Prince George (b. 1902), but young, almost-unknown Prince John, is the latest regal son. Press-evading Prince John was born in 1905, is handsome, unmarried, keeps his name out of the newspapers (and print as a whole) even more studiously than does the Duke of Connaught. . . .

SAMUEL T. SCHROETTER JR.

Bristol, Va.

Prince John Charles Francis, born July 12,1905 died Jan. 18, 1919. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, born Dec. 20, 1902 is George V's youngest living son.

Most of delicate Prince John's 13 years were spent in the quiet of Wood Farm. Sandringham. There, with his old nurse he whiled away the days, drawing and gardening. — ED.

Mask & Wig

Sirs:

. . . TIME showed continued partiality to the ill-named "big three" (neither biggest in size, athletics & endowment) by calling Princeton University's Triangle Club show "most ambitious of U. S. college musicomedies" in Dec. 29 issue of their popular news concentrate. All of the many thousands of University of Pennsylvania subscribers & readers both undergraduates & alumni sent messages by mentelepathy or letters with fervent "absurds!" "Why not attend a Mask & Wig show?" etc.

Pointed suggestions to request press tickets for next production and obtain a few statistics on the activities of much-beloved Mask & Wig Club also came in numbers. Steps taken to add to the great store of knowledge of TIMEditors by themselves will undoubtedly bring attention of many friends of the publication to Triangle's only superior, annual production of Benjamin Franklin-founded, first U. S. university.

A few facts about Mask & Wig . . . owns its own clubhouse in heart of Philadelphia . . . decorations and murals by Maxfield Parrish . . . only college production to play two solid weeks in metropolitan (Philadelphia) theatre . . . renowned for its dancing, chorus & solo . . . 1930 production John Faust, Ph.D. acclaimed by New York critics as most remarkable piece of satire in years . . . donators to alma mater of unit of dormitories bearing its name.

CLAUDE BARRERE

Yale Travel Bureau

New Haven, Conn.