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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952.
HOW that £140
carpet split
a £20,000 team
by WILLIAM GRACE
over
B
3. Carte, who had lost thou
cands on "The Yeomen of the Guard" in America, was legally THAT quarrel
carpet-which wrecked i to charge his partners included carpets just as much the Cilbert-and-Sullivan fer upkeep of the theatre. That partnership at the height as new electric bulbs (the Savoy of its success becomes was the first theatre in London
lighted by electricity). easier to understand.
DON IDDON'S
DIARY
-New York, Tuesday.
LL the past week
the messages have heen flowing into the British Embassy, the British Consulates, the Bri- tish information services, and the New York offices of The full story is told for the
the British newspapers. by Leslie Bally in Are time THE GILBERT AND SULLI-
So, while "The Gondollers" There have been con- VAN BOOK (Cassell, 42s). Pro-
and danced its gay cachucha odolences, tributes, and ex- duction of this lavish
faith and fascinding chronicle has been ever-delighted audiences during held up to include letters un 1890 (In the second quarter, the pressions of
They were takings were £20,000), Gllbart friendship, and good wishes
Issued a writ
sem r 70 years, found by Miss Bridget D'Oyly the Carte, granddaughter of
behind the old Savoy
man
operas.
He wanted all the secounts to he reopened for the whole of
the past 11 years partnership, The irascible Gilbert was so during which Carte had paid angry about the quarrel that him £90,000. he wrote: "After the withdrawal of "The Gondaliers, our unit- be will ed work heard in public no inore,"
That carpet nearly lel to
011
12
Landlun revivals of the operas and embargo on touring companies both England and abroad.
"The Mikado”
bert and Bullran
by modern Utopía,
the rest might never have been heard audiences. Now why?
for the future.
The United States mourns the death of the King. All wish Queen Americans Elizabeth I..a long and Came sried
prosperous' reign. team two rising young novelists, J.
It has been deeply mov. M. Barrie and Conan
Complete strangers Doyle, with Sullivan: ing. he rejea ed thele have dropped into the office scripts. Gilbert found and mumbled: “Just thought another composer
nother you'd like to know how much everybody admired Eventually, the your King," and "You are legal battle over, he fortunate to have such, a two men collaborated en wo more operas. wonderful young Queen." But the £7,200
has Lid,"
(but
Sullivan),
never If anyone doubted the cvor! been closeness of the United
Duke,"
feebles, Kingdom and the United perfo States these last sad days must have dispelled the
well, hardly
"The Grand revived. dispute Biely 14th, last, and the time of the AL
Sullivan were cred
123 Gilbert
aler and
£ 10.000 amances. making more than
The cach.
fashionable your
fleshy. When the pair met on the Sullivan, plump and
favourite
of the Savoy, taking a of stage
curtain-cau, Regalty, pent freely on enter- 21 anniversary
speaking taining racehorses, the casino, they
terms. They did not meet again, travel.
Why did the partnership en-
smcoth-tongued
Gilbert,
fall. deep-voiced,
not wero
on
built the Gurrick Theatre out of dure for & Jong? The two men
his profits.
could not get on,
Achi Gilbert despised Sulli van's pretensions as a serious Carte," their composer, envied his high living Richard D'Oyly partner, built the Savoy And
No, the partnership endured Palaeo Theatres, and the Savoy beenuse neither in could do Hotel, out of his share.
with the other-financially. Bad-lumpered Glbert started The fee Sullivan get for, a big
when concer, 300 guineas, was He exploded
in a night ut had much as he lost that Carie he heard Esper £4,500 on preparing "The Monte Carlo,
Cisauctiors," and that £300 of
the row.
and
20
doubt.
Most newspapers day devoted after day have almost their entire issues to the sombre news, to biogra- phies of the late King, the new Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the royal child- ren, the illustrious story of the Crown
GOOD FRIENDS
America Watches and Marvels
at the enduring strength and might of the Commonwealth
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke take part in scores of formal functions and dozens of informal meetings, I have been naked question after question.
news-
Queen of Canada, Austra ing the life story of Queen elizabeth under the te of lia, New Zealand, South Frem Libet to Queen." So is Africa; the Sovereign, of the leading Isolationist Colonies and Protectorates paper the New York Dally in Zanzibar and Pemba, of News.
There is a hardly a newspaper Malta and Hongkong, the Leeward and the Windward about Britain and the monarch- or magazine, whatever its views Islands; ruler of a fifth of ical system, which is not print- Ing tens of thousands of words as tribute, sometimes disguised the great globe itself."
The Americans realise as royal biography.
Also our good American coy- that Britain is not just the
arc Ains
Title nonplussed by United Kingdom, but that the promptness and even speed Britain is everywhore with which the Canadians pro- of the on the Alberta plains and claimed Queen Elizabeth Queen
oilfields, in the African of Canada, jungles, in the green pas me: You know, the U.S. and tures of New Zealand, in Canada are one and the same the great cities and the country really. You can't tell vast farms of Australia, in the difference,
Newsreel and television cameras have been brought into the office by crews from the major networks, and one has done one's best to tell a little of our heritage and tradition and give an accurate picture Queen and her husband.
has
The United States often shown that it is, a good and sincere friend of the British family of na- tions, but never more
than now.
In
SAD BUT PROUD
Americans have often said to
can. The
a thousand islands, and on Canadians can. The latest news 20, all seven seas;
4
Can't you?
from. Canada is that the country, not fond of being termed This is a sad time, but it is also Dominion, may decide to call itself the Kingdom of Canada, o proud one.
People here do not pretend to understand the mystic qualities NO COMPULSION of
more
the
than
and the Throne
Professor
Max
FOR a day or two there was
a slightly jarring note Sovereign,
Times
distinguished some of the dispatches Lerner throws up his hands and WHO says so? The New York
says: "One often wonders how
correspondent, P. J. of the British manage will little Ottawa from London and some
Mr
writes: sticks and Philip.
Philip a few
Is the editorials here.
and a monarchy stones and a bit of glue, and "Canada
She is an in- There were references to some swagger to keep an 'Em- not a republic.
dependent country, voluntarily the "once great" Empire pire together."
Ah, profesor, there is far and phrases such as "King
the Queen of the Realm.”
This devotion to the Crown George's reign marked the more than "sticks and stones, a
regardi end of an era of British bit of glue, and some swagger" and this high personal
there are love and loyalty. for. Queen Elizabeth 11, were power."
seen over and over again during British Crown was severed by the tour of Canada. But that was only at the the revolutionary war, but 婚 known here Ameri-
The American
bond to the
wing allegiance and loyalty to
I tell you that the death of the
beginning. Now the en- has not vanished. When the King and the succession of the
during might and strength news was
AMERICAN interest and Empire are realised and them to say: "The King of
That
The United Kingdom is go ing through a temporary finan-
of the Commonwealth and cans said: "The King is dead." Queen have shown the world the Commonwealth and It never would have occurred to Empire are stronger than ever. England is dead." curiosity have been in- marvelled over.
Today Americans
. Even our harshest critics take cial embarrassment, but Caneda. satiable. Because I had the
Queen on the role of courtiers. The was never wealthler, nor more that honour to report the royal reading.
onti - British powerful, nor was Australis, ner apoplectically reigns over Colonel McCormick, who owns South Africa, The sons havo blended in the best Englishtour of Canada and travelled Elizabeth
the royal route, seeing. 600,000,000 people, is the Chicago Tribune is publish- grown up and they stand be
sice their mother.
Money was the great peace- the affairs of the the maker in for
team whose mild-and-bitter
the was for new lobby staircase carpets
Savey Theatre.
来
You're making too much operatias ever written.
molicy out of my brains," he fumed in a volcanic interview.
with
A
"Very well, then, snapped Carte, "You write no more for the Savoy.".
Sullivan sided Why
the famous "carpet Carte in quarrel has always been mystery. The facts how emerge. 1. The carpet cost £140, not £500.
3. "The Gondollers" was ex- pensive because Gilbert ordered costumes and materials "blind." without getting estimates.
are
FINE CROP OF COMEDY IN
THE INDIAN ELECTION
New Delhi. INDIA'S first general election, history'a greatest experiment in democracy, yielded, along with party upsets and sur- prise, candidates' jubilation and chagrin, a fine crop of comedy.
With about half an elec- torate of 170,000,000 vot- ing. 95 percent of whom are illiterate, inevitably there were very many amusing misunderstandings, farcical incidents and comic situa- tions.
By ALAN HUMPHREYS
boat, or bicycle or other repre- ballot sented symbol there.
Against the background of the King's death and the coming to Le Throne of Queen Elizabeth everything else seems petty. and trivial.
II.
Here there has been the mam- moth rally in Madison Square
Garden for General Dwight Elsenhower.
thousand Eighteen people turned up it was a
and dizzy and gaudy occasion.
I went along to see for myself, and got crushed in the crowd, which included girls dressed as cowboys and men dressed as Indians. Almost every- officer: Red
body carried a fing or banner or wore an emblem.
Another woman voter for Nehru, learning he wasn't standing in her constituoney, boxes and exclaimed: said to the presiding "Blessed be all of you, my "Then let me vote for you." children."
There were similar eccentrl- A blind woman said she wanted to vote for camel, but would like
A septuagenarian who tore cities among male voters. One walked away with his to pat it first. The polling his paper into 12 pieces for all man officer held up the camel ballot the boxes smilingly explained he ballot because the paper looked box for her to feel, whereupon had promised his support to all: too good to he wasted in a she became very angry and "I have kept my word and box." loudly asked: "Where is the
displeased none," camel?" She could only be per- sunded to vote by being told the animal had gone to graze,
One aged rural vater took an in the inordinately long time booth. An official went inside and found him with the ballot box bearing the pitcher symbol in his arms, trying to drink from Omelaldom went fhio the the sit. He said he would only electoral vote if the pitcher contained country's gigantic adventure with serious qualms, wine.
They were darkly apprehensive
of possible disorders.
The principle of "Arst come
said a first served,"
peasant, Promises to canvassers were decilled for him. "I dropped u regarded seriously. An elderly papers in the boxes placed first man gave his vote to one of five in the row. Whose are those?" candidates, then. Instructed his four sons to vote for the rest: If five people ask me for a them favour I must oblige equally. That is justice," the father told a canvasser after- wards,
*
Clark Gable was there with Senator Cabot Lodge, chief or- raniser of the Eisenhower cant- and handsomer than
bagn Gable, Some in the crowd
shouted: "Clark Gable for Pre- sident." Gable grinned and the crowd roared.
AT A DISTANCE
Tie general's voice was heard o recordings ot his speeches made when he was president of Columbia Univer- drving, Berlin, the song A Cond (Gonds aro a Central writer, did a very good job, and Indian tribe) insisted that I suppose the rally could be con- the polling officer should siderjed Women went to the polls in toll Hilm whom to
Outalde the martial young man intend- surprisingly large numbers, In
for. Trepeatedly tell him
rebuked ing to vote for Congress (yoked some places they outnumbered
160 anical
Which said:
There were a fow ugly incidents. bulls), changed his mind when the men, One wotnan had her- and then would fhaver to-let neran n farm,ko
A
threats, intimidation, even small number of unhappy fatali ties, but against this giant back. ground of the elections these were remarkably zare.
.
Instead there was the vastly wider experience of whole con- stitueneles in rollicking laughter. Comedy for exceeded tragedy.
From all over the country, relieving the general tedium of straight. ropetitive election reports, came accounts of the fun that was enjoyed at the polling boothi
he saw the row of ballot boxes. self carried to the polling station inake
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to
influence not more
but what does Ike like?
town choice, he anally The popular appeal of. Eisen-
He put his paper in the lion box on a stretcher and dies a few went away shouting angrily:.""If
he "preferred Sullocks.“
minutes after voting.
For many of them--Indeed. for many men, 100-polling day was as good as a holiday. Thou- sands of women camo out of purdah for the first time in their
fe to cast their votes.
you don't know, how do you hower and the demand for him expect poor folle like us to re, treat: but you cannot run for President at long distance.
man cari. No man Know?"
drive here: to Not only votes went into the There is also a ballot boxes. In one was found nominate General MacArthur a petition to Nehru for food and for the Presidenty, but I don't
think it will get very far, ya da clothing
-There humorous exceptions to
Sometimes the very eriina:) nes the simplicity, of the symbols created sentimental The age-long, inferior position attachments for voters. They of women and their traditional the normal, somewhat drab, confused their own possessions, withdrawal from life outside procedure of voting, were how- they own way of life, with the their family sometimes caused over, extremely few compared The choice of candidate.
difficulties. Wives tended to to the total votes cast ketuse to
their general impression was that the disclosó Ono voter rode to the polling husbands naines and would Indians showes a remarkable The very arrangements made station in his own bullock cart only do so who cartain nobody degree of political maturity. because of widespread iteracy and expressed his wish to vote
could overhear. themselves provoked. mush for the candidates having bull
They know what they were They knew humour. The use of symbols to and cart as their symbols.
doing and why, designate candidates was perhapa
what they looked for in choosing the most fruitful source.
their candidate. There wero, innumerable examples of people going to great trouble in order to exercise their right.
*
Told he could only choose one, ho declined to vote, saying he loved his bulls and this · cart
equally.
One woman igorously refused to have the indelible mark put This inability to decide between was done to prevent impersona on her left index finger. (This candidates. was
frequent tion by those who had Already essurrence,
voted), Taking up a strongly
to reach
A cripple crawlod 21 milca his. polling station. Even wanted criminals contrived to voto, About 26 notorious outlaws managed to exercise their franchise. Jodhpur guising himself as a policemen, Division, One."
-dil zo by dis-
In camel-less South Indie, for vote between the two. Women, A 63-your-old Christian A villager reported to the
Nehru teemed to appeal to Instante; the camel becare an elephant to some. There were many inst Others saw it as a dog, voters tearing
were many instances of woman wanted to vote for him police that give miles from s
their ballot
as cho rogarded the Prime palling booth ho met a police Many voters expected to find papons into two or more pisces Minister, as a reincarnation of manjon a camel who stated ho the real thing inside the polling and putting a bit in different Jesus Christ Told that Nehru was, not a policeman, but: -a, booth. A number refused to vote boxes An old woman slipped wasn't a candidate she declined dacalt, who had gone into town
to vote. because there was no ladder, or a bit of her vote into all 14 to vote,
It was found that many rural people rarely if ever, look at anything printed. Two-dlinen- ulonal" representation camo hard, A ballot paper was found ethical line, she declared: to them, especially animals they placed between two boxes. The refuse to admit I am dishonest." had never seen in life, peasant who placed it there the name of Jawarhaital explained he wanted to divide his
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