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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1953.
LONDON IS GAY IN CORONATION YEAR
N
London.
just under six months By Peter Chambers
from now; Queen Eliza
beth II will be crowned
at Westminster Abbey. They are bringing 5,000 visitors
England The date in Tuesday, June 2. to
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And the crowds!
On that day, London will cruises," be packed with more visitors than ever before in her history. They will have come to see the most glorious pageant. In the world.
"Coronation
About a million people will One line the processton route,
them will have modern quarter
scats. The best and cheapest seats are the 100,000 put up by the Ministry of Works, How in London looking ld at £0 (covered) and
to be
£ these grey wintry days, six (uncovered). Commonwealth
visitors months before the event?
will take a third of be Well, you can walk round these, and the rest will the seven-mile procession allocated to local authorities and national organisations through- route and-apart from the out Britain. stands already erected along the Mall-you will not sco PREPARATIONS many signs of preparation for June 2. The Coronation looks as if it has been tem- porarily submerged in the festive scurry. Which only goes to show how deceptive appearances can be, because behind the scenes there is an enormous umount of work being done on this £700,000 celebration.
price
ol Bent at the tokol agencies M £10-£30, (An Interesting note on the rise in the cost of living here: at Edward II's Coronation in 1307, a seat cost one farthing.)
London's famous clubs, con- centrated In St James's, Pall Mall and Piccadilly, are ex cellently placed for a Coruna tion view. They have resisted big offers from the agencies and are letting their seats to mem-
ACCOMMODATION bon
All over London, street com- mittees, began months ago to collect money for their own Coronation colebrations. Every conjuror, Punch and Judy show and ventriloquist in town has been
booked up for the ehldren's Coronation parties.
In the borough of Fulbam alone (population--a hundred-.. odd thousand), over sixty street parties are planned. Tradesmen and borough councils are chip- ping in with donations.
Stepney Council are giving a. fortnight's holiday by the sea- side to 2,000 children, and the parents of every child born on Coronation Day will receive gift of 22.
Lewisham will give parties for the aged and the sick; Brentford and Chiswick are having bonfree and fireworks on the Thames side,
The borough of Hammersmith is spending £8,000 on street parles, Traders In Lambeth have launched a £1,000 to buy seats at the Coronation procession for 250 war orphans.
bers and guests for between EAST END £10 and £20, including cuter-
Ing.
113ge
find
parties. Many of the victimis will be free gifts from local
pers.
And what noise and galety there will with the tooting en toy trumpets, the blowing of blowers, the wheezing of ac- cordions, the paper-comb bands and that linkling old upright plono, Arm in arm, the pearly kings and queens (monarchs in their own litle territory) will gildo and fontie through "The. Lambeth Walk," "Kneer Up, Mother Brown," and "Ballin the Jack,"
The Coronation is a solemn and consecrated act. It is also the most gloricus pageant and the most joyful celebration in the modem world, We shall put out the flags. We shall cheer. Wo shali drink her health and ery, "Long Live the Queen!!
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"NOW will you admit I can itill do an old-fashioned curtay!"
AMBASSADOR'S WIFE
By MONICA DICKENS
MAILING for New York You might think that a
The Eisenhower
Boom, Is On
SPEND, MISTER, SPEND
From Nowell Rogers
New York.
THE bubble and glitter-
TH
bubble of champagne and glitter of gold-is back.. in America on the crest of the great Eisenhower boom. Oh, to be a debutanto in dazzling those days of parties in the great ball- rooms of Park Avenue!
Ah, to be a movie star queening it at Hollywood night club parties given by Texas oil millionaires]
America has seen nothing like it since the jazz age of the Terrific Twentics.
Rich men rejoicing in the Eisenhower era are opening their cheque books as they have not done for 30 years.
The dollar greenback light has Kone on.
Tiaras and couriliness are the style. And while in the colour -white ties for men, while mink and ermine wraps for women,
diamond and rhinestone tiaraa and bracelets and necklaces.
in the Queen Mary mother, brought up to the white gown to go with the. with Mr Churchill less rigorous American were Sir Roger Makins, the system of day schools might new British Ambassador to disagree with her husband's Washington, and his wife, ideas for a little boy's educa- Wearing one of the new tion. But Lady Makins "I did think keep her end up with well- eight seemed awfully young dressed Washington society. for him to go away. Still,
suits she had bought to simply says, Green and
WHERE are you going to
put everybody, for a start? That is a question Sir
Something like one-fifth of Nov
TOWHERE in Britain will the Alexander Maxwell, British the population of Britain will
Coronation be more joyously than in London's holiday and travel chief, be watching the Coronation
on celebrated would like to hear the answer TV. There are 2,500,000 sets in East End. East Enders do love Loday, compared a party. The main streets of to. Hotels in central London the country
wid were booked out months will only 10,000 at the time of Stepney, Bethnal
be guy with Whitechapel King George Vl'a Coronation.
the "old and streamers, ago. You cannot hire a bed-
brought roll in a bathroom. Now. Jean d'Arcy, Paris TV chief, Joarina" (piano) will be
met BBC engineers in London out on to the pavement, and tad Sir Alexander is trying to accommodate the overspillently to fix a cross-channel, and
(wife) will dance and aing and the Coronation of our quarter-million Coro through a relay station at Lalle. drink bottles of stout while the nation visitors "within it will be ironic, indeed, if the Idddles delve into their Corn one-and-a-half-hour's travel Parisians can comfortably watch on souvenir mugs
bonus sweet ration. TV while. from London." Some of them the Coronation on
is left for example, Aberdeen
All down these back strocis will be staying as far away quite out of the picture!
the trestle tables will be set out as Brighton.
Those are London's overt and with white cloths, ice cream, cakes. crackers and for the fellies, preparations
for the children's In the Thames us floating hotels, great day. What of the people? paper hats
Eight liners will be moored public
of
his
for
their
Master crooks with
a timetable mind
London.
thing NE startling
emerges from a study of the Crime Sheet for 1952: It is that the growth of the Menace of the, Cosh has not cradicated the old and still valid Menace of the Master Mind.
PERCY HOSKINS concludes his close-up-of-the-changing-face-of-crime.
"No Hiding Place," Per- cy Hoskins' book about Scotland The advent of the cosh Yard, is to be translated in- does not necessarily mean a ́ switch from the "intelli to Siamese as a textbook gent" criminal approach to for Biam's the
of all-out police force. polley brutality..
The "planners," like the men who devised last year's £200,000 mail: robbery, are still around ready to match wits with Scot- land Yard if the bait is tempting enough.
The book, which may bo obtained locally from the South
China Morning Post offices,
In co-opera was produced tion with the Yard and has There is nothing haphazard been recommended by the about the way they go International Criminal action.
Into
Their projects often involve months of observation work, constant rehearsals, timing, and often amount of inside help.
Police Review.
accurate good deal of their time career- a certain ing round the country;
"THIRD, that many of them ore parked for hours at a time In fields alongside the roads and separated from them by an easily climbable fence;
"FOURTH, that the
No one has to this day dis- covered who disconnected the alarm bell of the Euston mall van before it set out on sta adventurou and
costly journey.
owners
are never quite sure what they have in their shops and ware houses, and frequently
come
Shops, on wheels! WHILE the cosh man is re- along two or three weeks after crufted from the ranks of the event to tell you something the crude, Inexperienced, and has been stolen, but they are operators, not sure either when or where, unintelligent crime the clever crock is always plan- All this may seem qulié fan- ning his activities with a view tastic, but is a fair picture of lo reducing risics.
what happens on the railways
That is one reason why he does so well from the rail- woya.
The call amounted to over £2,000,000, and the 1052 ngurs did not show any great improvement.
losses for
-1051
property from cars find
thelr
best protection In the number of cars left unprotected.
Shoppers-particularly women -pile up their purchases the rear seat of parked and disappear on other mis- sions.
On cars
Every day in every city hun- dreds of cars are 'looted. Most of them have something of value clearly visible back seat.
the
There were £700,000 worth diamonds and other jewels of recent party in Hollywood's Mocambo night club. They were on the heads and
nocks and arma of women like ex-Queen Nazli of Egypt, tobacco heiress Doris Duke (squired by musician Toe Castro), Joan Crawford (with Cesar Remaro) and Lana Turner (with Lex Barker).
They glittered on hairdos and
gowns of Dorothy Lomour (with ber husband, Bili
Buddy Fogelsan), and Marlon Howard), Greer Garson (with her husband, Texas millionaire Davies (with her husband, Cap- tain Hornce. Brown),
In all the excitement and everyone else does it, So turmoil of packing up and what can you do?"
She likes to wear old leaving England for no one knows how many years, the country clothes, but the only thing that was worry Washington Embassy gave ing Lady Making was whe. her an excużo to go on a Year's Eve party at sen, as because she had not bought ther there would be a New shopping spree in London. it was the first night out. It any new clothes for so long. was her first New Year's She did not go to a special Eve at sea. For the moment dressmaker. She .just It meant more to her than snooped around
ed in all the the fact that she was the shops, like any woman up wife of the most important from the country with a Englishman in the United buying urge. States.
Lady Makins is the sort of woman whom you classi- fy as unspoilt. She bears no resemblance to the stock Embassy Wife-that stilt- ed, cynical personage whom you sometimes meet in diplomatic establishments.*
Sha smiles quickly, is high-
spirited and without sophis- tication. Her favourite ex- pression is: "I like to live from day to day."
Perfect Copy
Curly Hair
She bought more evening dresses than she has ever had in her life, for she will have a great deal of enter taining to do in Washington. Ball on January 20, she will For Eisenhower's Inaugural
Five
private detectives guard-
them.
Texan, Tevis F. Morrow. He The host WEB millionaire bought out the Mocambo for his 400 Kueals. It cost him over £10,000.
For this money, champagne Лlowed like Texus oll.
For guests ate green turtle BOUD au sherry, crabmeat Madras, brolled tenderloin of beef, potato Duchesse, bouquet- marrons, and drank fine wines erie of vegetables, lee cream and imported quers.
Two orchestras took turns Texas." Paris singer Edith Piaf playing for dances. Twelve times they played "The Eyes of
wear "my grandeat dress starred in a floor show. The really hush one. What's favours were ten-gallon Texas it made of Oh-I don't cowboy hats. know. Satin, could it be?
I
never know. Sort of pinkish Pink satin, I sup- pose. Call it pastel, if that sounds better. What's the difference?"
In New York, stately debutante
balls enormous balls begin near midnight. In the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Amory L. Haskell gave a coming out party for his debutante For the care of her curly party. In the foyer a mechanical daughter Hope. It was a circus hair (which she
calls clown furiously played a toy pipe, organ. A painted wagort was filled with wooden clown boating drums. Cloth Ilons glared from cages: Two-Ten Teasic waved a fat band from the sideshow.
An American woman meeting her for the first time would set her down as English: her voice is Eng- on
lish, and so is her figure (the word for that would mousey), Lady Making went be "reedy" I think). But in either to a London coiffeur,
Lady fact,
or to the little village hair- dresser In American.
Hampshire. "Where shall I have it
in She was born in St Louis, done.
Washington? Missouri, about 40 years Heavens, I haven't the ago. She came to Washing faintest idea yet."* obstacle
ton with her politician
In London alone in 1951 arti cles valued at £260,700 were stolen from unattended vehicles. Only £24,700 worth was covered,
More patrols. ONLY
10+
<
the
\NLY one effective
which can be put in path of this and, every other form of crime is known.
We must have moro' men back on street
patrol.
The local policeman, with his fund of knowledge about the fami- Hes who live on his beat, must be restored to our sys- tem of life.
In 1852 Sir Richard Mayne, a former Metropolitan Polico commissioner, laid down this regulation In the police code:-
an
"The primary object of encient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detec- tion and punishment ofen ders crime committed,
Makins la
J
"
names.
On the same night at the St Regis root, movie tycoon Jacks L. Warner gave another for
debutante
daughter Barbara. Six specially trained parrota greeted some women guesta by, squawking their first
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were the guests of film magnate Jack L. Warner,
Movie stars were a dimo. dozen, Mrr Beatrice wife thore,
of Anthony Eden,
Sherman PUM
Douglas,
father. She was a debutante The Washington Embassy is there, going to all the par- the top of the social tree for any British diplomat's wife. But Lady ties, and it was at a party Makins calm about I, "Was in 1933 that she met and it a surprise? I suppose to. I What fell in love with young hadn't thought about th Roger Makins, then a junior comes home and told me? 5. can' did I think when my husband member of the British Em- remember. I was too busy
think. It was probably one of bassy staff.
the times when we had no help When he returned to in the house, and I was being
ambassador: cook, charwoman and generat England and a job at the bottlewasher. Foreign Office, she followed him, married him here, and became not only an English wife, but a perfect copy of an Englishwoman as well,
Large
Staff
In Washington the will have a
large and eficient statt, wilich
For the last four years, the departing ambassador's wife, aho takes over from Lady Franks,
"To these ends all the efforts of the police must be directed. she has been living in a with the Embassy résidence la "The protection of Ufe and small Hampshire village, in Massachusetts Avenue, pa What, then, can we do? ** property, ` the -preservation of a red brick houso--a-mix- "They'll want to run the house publle tranquillity, and the ab- ture of Tudor, William and their own way, I expect," says "We argue that if a thiet sence of crime will alone prove was working a month ago ho whether those efforts have been Mary plus a modern wing Lady Makins. "Probably run me
too. Just as well. They, Iran, is probably working today. By successful and whether the ob- added on to accommodate a the ropes. I don't" analysing the complaints and fects for which the police have lot of children. claims for the past month we been appointed haug been at- can pin-point the probabla tained,"
"Today 100 years later --- place of theft, and can expect
wo 'may justifiably ask: "How measure of success.
· far, off" is attainment?” effect a reduction in this black malyse Use 800,000 complaints "But just imagine trying to total of thefts in transit.
we get each year!”.
I asked a senior member of the railway police why his or ganization had not been able to
Life in Washington will be The Making have a family very different tren bes easy out- of six, ranging from twin door life in Hampshire. "Sull," girls of 171⁄2 to a boy of two. sio ways, "w be fun. I'll meet Lots of people. That's fun And The Washington job will I might get to see something of For all US broak up the family, for the my own husband. He's been up Landon so while I've This was his explanation. "Take a reasonably rett elty. So the railway crook, and THE question is not acade twins have to stay here to been the much world the mic. It concerns every be presented In Coronation children go on trips with. "FIRST, imagine. that the the brain behind him doors of all the shops and it in the mustpildly of one of us today in this New year, and 10 year old him all round the States. At warehouses, kro left on the traffic regulations lies his best Your which may be a new Christopher must stay at lost, I hope I will,"
record your for grimni topg his preparatory school - in protection latch;
Washington will find fi Hard to The length of the criminal's "SECOND,- that they : aro/all And so too the "fencer who "arm is governed by the Kent, until he goes to believe that this very English ambassador's wife was once a atted with wheels and spend a sro prepared to receive stolen strength of the public's quitt Winchester like his father. debutante there.
་
Ands
17.
was
Lewis Douglar's daughter, lost a diamond pla
Stars of the Loor show, were Judy Garland,
Mary Healy, Peter Lind Hayes,Bruco McRae....
Yes, it's socially`safe to spend and splurge again.
| POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
You mustn'a mind” Mr. Kruckenfacker —he's hot crazy about local colour!”