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and My Gal’ — I’ve known that song two years; you can’t fool me!’ ”
“And he was right; it’s a swipe,” nods Vivien. “The Prince is wise.”
“Wise? — he’s just like an actor. And he knows it!” glees Rosetta. “The Prince said to me, and these are his very words:
“ ‘My life’s a vaudeville show ; I’m booked up for every day in the week.’ And then he said :
“ ‘They princed me so much in Americah that I wanted to bark.”
“He’s a Prince Charming,” Vivien murmurs. “His favorite phrase is ‘That’s so sweet of you.’ And he's witty. He ran to the band as we left the Major’s and asked the band boys to play ‘Me and My Gal.’ And the Prince himself played the drums, exultingly, as much as to say, ‘There’s our tune from which you swiped your tune!’ That’s the way he drummed us out.”
“And next night we met him all over again,” thrills Rosetta. “You should have seen that scene of Mrs. Vanderbilt’s reception to King Alfonso — diamonds even in the buckle straps of their shoes — every man loaded with decorations except, of course, the American polo players. The Duncan Sisters’ family gems didn’t go very far in that gathering.”
“I don’t think you needed any diamonds — with the Prince running to meet you as he did,” Vivien puts in sisterly.
“As Mrs. Vanderbilt stepped to greet us we saw the Prince above, on a landing. You should have seen her amazement,” says Rosetta wickedly, “when he rushed off the landing like a shot and came up to us