THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1953.
by Giles
R.M.MacColl's Column Highland games
and
N spite of all the drum banging A whoop - de - too, I am told by lay officials in the catate agency business that "Coronation lets" in Lon- don have 80 far been few.
It is early yet, and the position could change as the excitement mounts, but until now any resemblance to a land rush has been non- existent.
Will a duchess
serve
correct pronunciation of French wine Utiles in its current issue, which I have been sent.
The tyro la ndvised to try it all in phonetic English, to be on the safe side, but I don't think 11 quite comes off. Chateauneuf du Pape, for example, la given its "Shot-ch Neft du Pop."*
Breakfast
for dollars?
Some of the London sub-let- asking prices now being quoted In America are unrealistic. Run- of-the-mill Americans who want to see the Coronation precession are no more anxious than the next man
to be "taken to the cleaner's."
London house wwners would moderate their
A big snag, too, is the assump- tion by many would-be Ameri-
Hi, there, Pop!
I constantly thankful that my meat idea! is' not confined to Etcak, Since the war steak scents to have achieved an Limost
significance.
myshmen's eyes
glow at the mention of it where a r
who are fond of accusing the ference to pork, veal, or lamb British of being humbugs, the leaves them relatively stles, chance to say they are right,
the Unwortled by
#leaklera
Clean-up No, 2 state of modern Britain, I find TALKING of cleaning things that the only food lack a tich up, isn't it about time that I feel since my return is tha: I Din America. eat as we considered the total banning cannot,
many egg as 1 can hold at a of dogs from our cities?
sitting. For me the offer of a dremmy demands the market The tale of our pavcinents, single egg has something of the 'might brighten overnight.
compared with those of other irony of the offer of a solitary civilised countries, Is fairly whitevall. noizome. Friends of mine who
that So are dog experts assure me
this incident rather de- Fido himself would be far hap- turbed me: A young girl of my pier away from it all.
family's equaintance caine up to for London from Wiltshire. We were preparing lunch, and the wema? dog lonely eng was bore from the refrigerator to thicken sauce with all the reverence accorded the Cullinan Diamond.
can lessors that service will be provided for the price of the let. piquant situa-
I can Yee sum
FEAT
CORONATION ~LUE HAS tions as British householders. perhaps titied--turn lo with map and breakfast tray on be- haff of the be-dollared guests.
"Hey, dook! The range juice Is warm agala this morning!"
Clean-up No. 1
ONDON gives the appearanes of far greater vice and open immorality than any great city of the United States. Note that I say "appearaner," because ! um dealing only with the look of the place.
Modern traffle is terrible his nerves, And how many owners have, the time, ur BTC
strategically enough placed, to give their dogs a daily.rum in a park?.
So off to the countryside with Fida. Let him come back to London just once a year for his. annual fling at Cruff's.
Lost orders ANOTHER section of the busi- A ness front where few joyens
somersaulls are being lurned
TAILORS
"What," declared the pink- checked minx in genuine Af~ tonishment, "you Krean to su that here in Londes they stil have egg rationing?"
Diatribe
FROM a man-Mr J, G, GID-
bon of Lenson, S. W.- Comes a dint:ibe against the worn by Amen
beadscarves which puts in the shade anything
Tould dare to write on them.
Says Mr G. "Let us hope that in Comnation Year we shall ce the long-overdue disappearance at the stack, slovenly, slip ho.. sloppy, slatternly; slummy head-
scurt.
second
Texas,
But reporting what I see. can assure you that the amount of blatant street walking in London la disconcerting to some- one newly arrived from the US.
Of course, I am not suggest-
such cities as New York, just now is among the great ing that Chicago, Los Angeles, or the gulf tailors of the Savile-row salient.
Now, ladies port of Galveston,
are For amid all the major repin- vice-free. But the fact remains ings over our retreat from India,
The COMING In un COM that in America it is kept more one uphappy by-product has chorus of that, may I also
Cover, Street received small publicity, When walking
is rarely tolerated they did away with the rajahs urge that Englishweta give up certainly never in big battalions, and the fortunes they hit the
And so respectable Americans Savile-row hard. who come to London shake their The dusky exquisites who in Thero is no Justification for
in astounded reproof at the dear, dead days were wont what they can hardly fait to see to order 30 or 40 suits at a time that cigarette clinging timply to
Kone with the wind of your lower lip in public.
And West
or
luss under
heads
their
habit of
street?
smoking in the
And
ere in the Empire's capital. have
End please don't start writing to ex- In the coming summer, with nationalism.
Impending ma ul
overseas Lallors are thousands of pounds plain that you only do it to keep
your poor mouths warm. visitors, there will probably be a year poorer in consequence,
tempta to "clean up the West
another of the spasmodic at- Sound? No, no! End. This putting of our best AN American magazine "de- Lace forward will doubtless ♫ voted to the arts of good afford our Continental friends, living" runs glessary on the
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FORE than once I have commented on the strange illogical love
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of the English for
By BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
fancy dress. What is more, I have all four seats on the out- I have discussed this point selves will swarm from the mean the English and not of-doors stand,
£0.
the other members of the two ot
As a number
tho
DAY
took a dim view of the per- formances,
even if they were moro or less from the horse'a mouth. I pross reports wera correct New Zealand audiences left no doubt as to where they stood.
nor
All of which I firmly applaud two free and from time to time, and it seems outlying districts into the metro-
that Parliament has devised a polls and will
New Zealand has as much right to see a want
decide how us England la of younger method of dealing with such West End show. island tribe. The Scot has MP's wanted to be with their situation it arose, Mr
The first appropriate musical Shakespeare should be played. only the kill and the re- children on the great day, they Churchill, as Prime Minister, attraction to arrive on the scene The fact that New Zealand la undoubtedly wrong is neither be impeached galia of the Highland cos chose the open air stand, which would
was film ster Anna Neagle in here on
there. Shakespeare the
essured
for having "The Glorious Yeers." On duly would certainly have appinuded automatically tume,
Welshman oc-seats for the rest of us and our given the
Abbey charge of treason
Queen bad advice. bent I went to the first night and such sturdy independence, casionally dresses up as an wives. As usual the Peers We would then pus
Churchili
came away with my
www
pulses ancient bard, but the Irish were treated. rather roughly in the Tower, notwithstanding under control. I suppos that
But do not imagine that your will have
protests which, I hope, we should be thrilled by seeing only
entertainment will be in of They had to ballot for a limited his none
number of seats in the Abbey, would be uttered in a decarous Nell Gwynn wheedle the Merrio the
realm of the arts. Royal special and there was no alternative manner. This procedure would Monarch
building Into
the
wilt have Ascot It is left to the English them.
out-of-doårs arrangement for legally hold up the transaction Chelsea Home for eld army pen. Coronation Week, and you will This has mennt that and would permit the Deputy sioners and we should cheer re the Englishman wearing hid man to prove the infinite about 40 percent of the Peers, Prime Minister perhaps loudly at a lot of baritones sing- grey topper and grey morning variety of the male bird to say nothing of their wives, the Minister of Agriculture to ing "We're soldier's vi the coat as only an Englishman can when it comes to plumage. are out of luck.
go and have a talk with Her Queen," as they marched off to wear theso symbols of civilian Majesty.
Elizabeth is not a child., She
man
it.
of
And,
the course Coronation will be the
very climax of it all.
Cour
Rebel Peers
and
is not an inexperienced girl to whom witchood, motherhood
Ho live
And
fight the Boers,
Song Thrills
Long Trail ner
two
B
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lon. As the Ascot Meet is on the Royal Heath, the Queen will drive up the course in her carriage on
days, Sho HOWEVER, there is one lord and Queenship came at !
loves racing and will have two At the Coronation ed King who is threatening reprisals, early age. She is п young George VI and his Queen the Carl-Baldwin--former-Socials!-woman-
of clear mind reine YET I found that it was still or three entries at Ascot, but possible to thrill-to the song horses have little senso of the dress regulations for the Abbey Oliver Baldwin, and son and forced by a strong character, hits of the 1014-18 war-"Keep fitness of things and I doubt if were pretty rigid. As a Mem heir of the great Tory Premier which fortunately docs not the Home Fires Burning" and Her Majesty will have a win- ber nd Parliament I hired a Stanley Baldwin, is a Gilbert leasen her natural, attrac- Court
uniform. consisting
of and Sullivan enthusiast.
womanliness. black velvet
knee breeches, told me the other night that he she recognises that black баск velvet fail cont with intends to recruit a male chorus are traditional silver Allgree buttons, thicle of rebellious Peers 10 stand which, аз
Queen, black gilk
not patent outside the Abbey on the great must slockings,
exercise; leather pumps with silver day and sing the peers' chorus are other powers which are buckles, a stiff evening
dress from "Iolanthe
entirely within her jurisdiction. shirt with white lie, and finally "Bow.
bow ye lower And one of these is the choice of her Maids of Honour at the a sword. My wife's costume was merely a formal ball dress.
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, Corenation.
Quite obviously, Her Majesty Personally enjoyed this I am afraid though that his must have pondered this. que cartorial expedition Into the plot
will not be achieved. tion with great care. have past, and found it quite natura! Even the Peers will pay tribute no doubt-in fact there is time the Coronation tover E shall have bonds playing in to rest my hand upon the sword to pomp
circumstance doub-that she contemplated a
reaches its height, Anna WE hilt. Nature has always in when the day of days arrives. retinuo gathered from Briton Neagle's show may seem in the tended the male to be resplen- However, democracy is not and the Dominions, if the word dent, and it is only a deep laid to have everything its own "Dominions" docs not affront plot on the part of women that way. Although the Peers have the semitivities of today. has reversed the rule in the been
put in their place, the human barnyard.
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At this point
more in this uniform? Faced precincts
the rise
Her Choice
"There's angely enough, Awinding."
Then there will be the Derby thero there were almost no songs in at the other end of the social powers e
the arid, merciless mechanised teale, the great festival of the she ***
The Ger- people where most of the vast there war against HlUer.
few Jockeys caps. fiinting above mans sang the plaintive, haunt- crowd will see nothing but ing "Lil Marlene," and the
the heads of the crowd. And British copied it from them.
However, In "The Glorious since this will be the Coronation London will Invado it Yours" you will see Queen Derby Victoria decorating a boy bugler en masse.. with the VC for having ap- parently conquered the Sudan
of
no
has issued the order, "Dress as practice her power is hedged of famous noble familles whose well as you can,"-an order al- with safeguards
for Kitchener. Maybe by the
mood. At the
embarrassing.
bɔ night,
most worthy to rank with that
developed ancestry goes back through the The Great Bard going
through the centuries.
centuries.
The Fleet
of Napoleon towards the end of
the Battle of Waterloo: "Sauve
qui peut!".
It was not an easy decision for
Fancy Dress
on
every
Cornier
pball
and
village green,
of the Ancient
London's endless, magnificent inoment it is parks; we shall have Cockney
orators ot Spouters' But London is not Britain, in Government
denouncing the Monarchy, the and the Police; my constituency (and in most
Thamas we the constituencies) we shall have on
have Hoals
boats and of open air performances the
the days of other Elizabeth; at Fly- that AT this point I do not know operetta "Merrie England" and pageantry as in Anny peth 1 do wt
of bey I must, with
mouth our old friend Drake Invade
the termined Her Majesty's choice of scouts and sos scouts and girl
and bowls again as the Armada is Buckingham the Malds of Honour. Putting guides and the Home Guard and will probably play his game of
templation
all the rest of it The Mayor sighted, thus establishing tho no less a askdo the by
Commonwealth
of my 'Borough will be in octet, putting Party, faced with the fact that person than Her Majesty Queen
precedence of sport over war. II,
the aside the even whether Mr Aneurin
And more obvious bloom from moming Bevan will not Elizabeth
there will be dances and wear even normal formal dress Scots accept that designation temptation of a poor's daughter, and on such occasions as I al-
a con- a miner's daughter, Attlee's tend these functions as the local leaux, plus all the quarrels
Parliament I must on official occasions, faced with or not. The Queen is
stitutional monarch advised by daughter, a duke's daughter, and Member of Parlor, for is ho and misunderstandings that are the heavy cost of Court
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her Ministers; but on paper her so down the line, Bho deli-
Inseparable from auch joyful uniform, the Lord Chamberlain power is colossal, even if by berately chose eight daughters not the first citizen?
events.
In fact, the Englishman la in fancy going to dress up costume. He is about to turn frest himself into an ancient halber Her Majesty to take. Certainly AND speaking of the
dier, or a footmon on a coach the choice was not due to in- eltizen, with its reminder of matter how pretty or dignified that the Bard will be in full plated. member in drab morning dress by my OR example, every sailor in flame the public imagination, ne Shakespeare, let me assure you like Leigh Haiman, or a breast- Com- the British Navy wears on his the girls may
be, But if the blast, for there is no en cap the words HMS Valiant, or selection
from pany, or a City. had included the equal the immortal Leigh's first husband) who has HMS Deflant or HMS some daughters of
miner or a fisher the banks of the Avon. At the Lirutement of the County in full wangled a Job one of the Coronation proces ship or a
onation thing or other, whether it is a man, these girls would have had Old Vic on the South Bank, near plumage. In fact, as I sat down
barracks on shore.
wonder if I sian coaches. There will be no The
to be dressed in flowing apparel the spot of Shakespeare's 18th these swords, reason for this is that the that might have
not alter embarrazed century Globe Theatre, you will should
my decision concession to corroding common Navy, and everything apper- them and certainly taken away see his plays at their best. and wear a sword once more ab sense when the coaches go by. taining to the Navy, is the any suggestion that democracy to Old Vic, but some of our
Remuneration counts nothing the Abbey. property or However, in the important absolute
Her was on the march..
ht.
Because, Indles and gentle- Queen. That is
finest actors play across the matter of actually being in the Majesty the
The rumour is that the Queen' river for the sheer joy of it men, we are about to see the Abboy, we MP", have done why at the officers' mess on any pretty well for ourselves, which
person embodies Toust is always drunk was hereditary in principle, she only see Shakespeare's plays the ageless, deathless story of down. By contrast, the would choose the daughters, of but his birthplace and the democracy a system of govern-
the great county families who had river banks where he this Realm, this island thather. ment by consent of the govern officers of the Air Force,
of nations. this courted Ann
patient goodly Holloway ed, but government with a clear Artillery, the Engineers, or the played an honourable and im-
marriage people, When the Archbishop recognition of the rights of the poor benighted Infan'ay have to portant role through the con
turies of Britain's life. On the successfully that a
of Canterbury turns in the stand up Therefore,
OT BO was hurriedly arranged
the North, then the to law whole the decision is sensible the gossips say. And you will try to elected legislators held a ballot Strictly according
without being exclung.
be able to buy genuine Shakes East, the South and the West on the basis that, if successful, there is nothing whatsoever to an MP could have two seats in prevent Her Majesty selling However, the Coronation pearo relies turned out by the and asks us to declare this girl our undoubted Queen, the Abbey and two sents at £6 the entire British Ficet to Mr neither begins nor ends with hundreds to meet the demand to be
when there will be proud hearts bub In the stand outside the Houses, Malenkov. of Russia--nothing the Abbey. The London theatre It is quito true that of Parliament facing the Abbey, whatever. In doing so, she is well aware that not only will the Stratford Company visited buspiciously shining eyes at wo A further concession was that, would be quite within her overseas visitors want entertain- New Zealand early this year, about the answer: "Long Live if he so desired, an MP could - legal rights.
ment but that the British them our kinsmen behind the beyond Queen Elizabeth!"
Thus I shall be put to shame
friend Leigh
Holman (Vivien
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one to and Honourable mold, or a
who in her
Is as it should be. Not only the British Navy the docided that since the Monarchy. And at Stratford you will not crowning of the young Elizabeth,
governors.
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