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the South Bank of the river
locomotives tha! seem to have all their Insides outside. Emmett is an artist who has exploited this strange humorousness of our railways in his life-long devotion to crazed and impossible
always drawn in Punch,
die
to
Now he has been vouchsafed convert his imagination on paper
precious opportunity
of a
The first point to notice opposite Charing Cross is is the style of architecture. the main effort of the Fes- The further west you go in tival. But, tired and worn out with electronics and rudar to the
moon, the
(With apologies to Coleridge). fully avoiding the drying that will be washed off by the -OU may be as con- concrete, I could discern time you visitors get there.
into living fact. I regret I have fused as Coleridge the shape of things to
only seen the first sketch of the That box on the left is the locomotive. Apparently, it is about this Festival. come in four weeks' time. riverside theatre, It is painted founded on a genuine antique Let me explain. On
pale dove-gray, with dozens of and has some "pure Emmett
additions"
in the form e glit lozenges all over it, addition interspersed with the Festival
fireman's cabin shoping
and that appear
whistles and bells suspended over signs
on the
the smoke stack. Incidentally,
It also has to be lopsided this Festival the
you will get tired of this Festival what appears sign, I have already been given wheels and it will run between fancy it gets. In the East a tie covered with
it. The three crazy stations "South Bank" End it is modernistic; riverside theatre Intends to put it is shiny on the Hghtest of Keht enter- and aluminium. Here, factaments-book now, or move ing Chelsen, the style is mock-Moorish.
visitor is also offered a trip in a steamer up-river past the House of Commons
you will have a privileged view of MPs taking tea on the terrace and past the gasworks, Lamboth- Palace- ond the Battersea Power station. You will reach Mr Morrison's Festival Gardens, They are in Battersea Park, which belongs to the Lon- don County Council.
on
The Piazza
more
on
4
advertisements.
English Joke
that this
I have a suspicion Down the Festival Bond Street elaborate English Joke will not
be so funny in practice. you will find
The strange building ล with an outline like the Taj rustic woodwork and will be sloping stations are made of Mahal, superimposed on a governed by station master in Tiviera bathing resort. This is a tall topering silk hat. But
one of the painters tells
is designed so that you can sit doesn't And it funny. You will
he lives in back home. and do nothing while watching be able to ride on this railway other people enjoying the fun which will be
called the "Fun-fair Pinźza you too can catch that Italian
He
river after clambering off u
If you come from the manner! The Fun-fair Piazza bitterly that it's just like what pontoon of the usual Bailey bridge, the first thing you
fair.
a
Sitting On The Fence
By
Nathaniel Gubbins
"I have Instructed my staff that if a woman comes through the turnstiles with four chlidiën and no money to spend shup shall be treated with the same consideration as would be' given a foreign ambassador-Major Letile Jouph, director of the Festival Ordens.
C
AN I do anything for
you, madam?
You can mind your own business for a start. I thought you might like to take the children on the roundabouts or the dodgem?
. Chance ain't it?
is
a
year-old will tell you, the first and second Angers of either hand must be forced as for as possible up the nostrils until the victim howis for quarter. If you wear long nails the re- sulls will be startling.
Should he drop off to sleep again, get a pencil and a piece his open mouth of paper, stlcis the penelt down as for as the tonsils. When he wakes half- choked, ask him to draw - R horse, a plg, or a bunny rabbit on the plece of paper.
It sleep overcomes him once fire thing. Climb on his knees, as children play your last card.
Wherever you go gardens, madam, you welcomed. as if you queen and your
more,
do, scraping the shins, treading
In the on the soft underbelly. This i
when will be painful enough
a two were D stone three-year-old Is the charming climber,
children princes and princesses,
Your 11 stone and sharp high Coe, ark at im. Willie, bez heels will put him off sleeping have, Ow many times ave 1 anywhere, except in bed, told you what your andker- chief'i for?
Perhaps the dear little fellow would like some refreshment?
Political sensation
TODAY Government circles will be amazed at the con- If you're talkin about Willie Armation of a plot to unseat he never stops eating from the them which I have suspected time he gits up till the time ever since they were elected in he goes to bed with the 1945, tccups. But we Just don't' appen to ave the dough-map- me. See?
Pardon madam?
I am able to reveal that their chief opponent is not Mr Wina- ton Churchill, nor the Right- wing Press, nor even, Sir Waldron Smithers.
The old bees and oncu. f you understand plain English. It is Old Mother Nature her. The stug that goes chink- self." chink and rustic-rustle. Got
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When the wind-blown hag visited the Sea Nest one bitter
I comprehend, madam, But April morning, ahe confessed if you are troubled by a tem- that she had fixed the weather porary financial embarrassment, for seven years, with the may I assure you on behalf of avowed Intention of getting the directors that no ambassador the Government out. from a foreign State, with un-
limited expenses, could be
more certain of a warm and sincere welcome at the Festival gardens?
"I
the
arranged droughts when crops needed rain," she
"Did you arrange last winter's rain and the spring
You swallowed a dictionary said, "and rain when the crops for your dinner?.
needed sunshine." As proof of my earnest destro to make your visit a memorable one, may I offer to escort you;----floods?"
your delightful elder daughter, free of charge, on u trip through the magic cave?
or
"Ot course. I believe I have drowned most of the early sown wheat and hope to reduce
Oh, so that's the lark, is it? the national milk yield so that After my Elsie, eh? I've read the Food Ministry's promise of
type
in the cream this summer will not be
fulffled."
about papers,
Your
If you will trust me, madam
de-
"Were you responsible for the hard winter which stroyed thousands of sheep?"
a million
I wouldn't trust you if you
"I regard that as one of my was handcuffed at the bottom greatest achievements. I think of a coalmine. Come along nearly Elsie, Pull down your skirt catule
sheep and and do, up-your-coat. There's This
perished in the snow.. put the meat ration fri wolves about.
peril
and forced the Govern- ment into a dificult position with foreign meat importers."
"What are your plans for the future?"
Englishman's home
"My husband goes out three
"I shall certainly send a lot
!
evenings a week, plays golf on of rain to run what's left of Saturdays and Sundays, When the harvest. at home he sleeps in a chair. What am I to do about it?- problem
Letter to a social
THERE
"May I ask you why you're doing this?"
"Because, my dear man, I'm
a Conservatiye.”
"What will be your attitude if the Government
are de- feated at the
Amore sedate will see will be a row of
outing than the roller-coaster. little shops looking like a The aim is entertainment.
This is an exedient idea be- The Festival people are rather Hollywood set-builder's idea cause the fun-fair itself is pre- fond of vistas. The actual product will be a of an Eastern bazaar. To paring to be wildly reavours. Bank they have the "Festival On the South kind of intellectual Coney suit the weather, however, the devices seem to carry to fairway. And here In Battersea Island founded
highest pitch of perll the there is another way of taking column. strong tea with milk and sugar. A fronts and the wares
all the shops have glass form of fun involved in throw a long view. At the moment the month before the gardens sale inside will not rise in pops or down chutes. Beyond middle of it that look exactly on Ing people, in couples, round and vista is a sea of med with twe
are so round, or upside down, through tapering metal
many things towers in the are due to open, the scene price as you approach and this funfair will be a row
you can do about it that I don't know where to begin. is a glorious chaos of mud fall in price as you
of like a couple of oll derricks. As
Pins are an obvious weapon. and bulldozers and
move carefully censored side-shows,
So is a jug of water. the news comes forth that these
I advise On the far edge of the gardens fer great financial loss, the cynics
Festival Gardens are due to suf- you to be more subtle. runs the 'Emmett railway." Now are saying that all will still be
As men are supposed to like be the wooden sheds where all this Eastern
Just to show his contempt for Mr Emmett
wives who remain young and the autumn, dry weather for British #
well if "Lord Festival" s'rikkes | kiltenisti, are very oп
young the work people of
pageantry, one phenomenon.
and the winter plough, light showers each of the painters has scratched on fascinated by our own railway
kittenish. Be us young as three and Wormth to nourish The contractor sit and drink one of the windows
system and have always re-
years old,
spring sowings and hot sun- I undersland fram a foreman, their pre-Festival tea. But lightening message "Fish-frying those funny foreigners across being run between the two der-
garded it as a bit of a joke that however, that a tight rope
shine for the ripening corn.” through the mud, and care tonight-skate, cod or flict." But the Straits of Dover have railway ricks and a circus performance
half-
built pavilions. The most away. permanent buildings look to
the en-
We
will distract the already dis- tracted visitor, However the Planners' drawings make the pylons mostly decorative. They are a mystery you must solve fo. yourself.
No Girls
There is plentiful accommoda- Non for ealing and drinking— and a dance pavilion. A-reB=" taurant in the shape of a cres. cent moon ivlil enable you to survey Mr Morrison's pleasure zurdens through a huge glass window,
on a wet afternoon. The Easton traveller, sitting on
this terrace, madking at bla hookah will be able to
to gaze across the tarmac at the fountain tower. Fountains will play, to
· be seen through Mozarable arches, and hidden musicians the local town band will delight the car, There will be no danc«. ing gris..
I anticipate that this corner of the Festival will be the most Arilish of all. For the foreign visitor in search of social study, It will be (centre from which to observe English, family life. ---It, will certainly be deminated by children, and the emotional Overtones will be the irritated. bad temper of thousand har will be på såle. Based mothers. "Festival Rock”,-
Festival Pleasure Gardend. The umbrellas to right and left are for drinking :)
tod under the round thing is a bandstand
and the Gothic towers at the the Festival Bond: Birest,"
Tomorrow! The East End --
be
As he amores in the chair opposite, throw yourself backc to childhood and play that love- ly game of opening the eyelids and saying, "Oo's got boo eyes," Or brown, as the case may be.
If this falls, there is still the enchanting pastime of "Angers up your nose.”: As any three-
Election?"
next General
when I shall send rain in
Do you think you will get the Government out?”
"I nearly did it last time. Next time I shalt succeed. They can make their speeches, write their articles, present their arguments. But I, True Blue Mother Nature, am, the one to do it,"
(London Express Service.)
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