Haile Selassie is in Mussolini's Barber's Chair. America celebrates first of April. This is how America views the predicament of Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, against whom the tide or war appears to be turning. the picture, a composite, is being published in America newspapers as an April Fool's Day joke. It shows Mussolini, with unrelenting face, holding a razor over Emperor Haile Selassie, lying at his mercy in the barber's chair. The Emperor seems aware of his danger. April 1st, 1936.