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The Coronation of the Queen
THE CROWNS, STATE REGALIA AND ROYAL PROCESSION IN COLOUR
Fine Stand-Up Model
of the
It means Marlene Dietrich In feathers suddenly appearing through
A cloud of engine smoke as a beautiful spy.
Or so I always thought....
It also mears, leaving vie:
Ot
the
samo all the in the Third they share a look much
world over, they smell the same Joker, Share
too. But In spite of them song,
share d
that know smoke,
I had reached Speak of love, and times of civilisation. Why?
sailings.
Well, there on the hoordings,
lowing Technicoloured. in
anncunced, for- Italian, they
THE PERSONAL tirelimo, APPEARANCE OF FRANK SINATRA.... And I pointed this cut to the elderly Roman who was pushing my typewrit- looked or on his barnow. He
Drink and Auntle Maudie's
faflings.
Dream and eat or sleep and
write
Underneath one central light.
So kindly
BUT at Dever I and to go back to my beastly preferential treatment. So there I finished
terla on a Monday morning just after courting the washing, my poem. ............ running Into Rome at four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Doesn't your heart beat faster ut the thought?
I
cause
So blase
I
the
CAN tell you mine did. 'Be- evch I have never 'been to Italy before and only Italian can speak 7 studied among the notes of "The Pixles' Patrol" when I Icamed the plans at the age of eight.
Well, then, was raining. I
at
In the Firat each one apart From his neighbour hides his
heart
Leat in some unheard-of way By word or look he should
Не
hetray,
dare not think whic's would be worst,
fle is not used to poing First, Here's Class Distinction in a
letter
In the First the Beats arc
better. By Paris Ti
was raining again, warm, muggy French rain,
The
ticket collector, who had eyes like black cherries and said he was called Pierre, thought I was mad because t were tired and uninspired. In sprinted, laden, along the pint- fact, blase There was a very form.
Oxford
to see that all travellers in my
Victoria il was horrified the First Class Pullman cur
smart matron in grey flannel with a Jewel case and an American escort in tussɔre, but when they spoke they only spoke about their hangover.
one very bored There waJ old British business man sur rounded by pigskin wallets and brief-cams. He was working very hard. All of them had been en the Rome Express be
tere. All
Flest Che....
the
vague.
told him about bobby- Foxers. His lip curled in scorn. Then, with the majestic roll of Dante's Inferno, he said: "Here is one city wifere Sinatra will go unmobbed. There bobby-soxers here.
And oddly enough I under- stood every single word.
arc
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Prince
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"But why on earth don't we
retaliate in kind! Marilyn Monroe looks most uhair- worthy.to me!”
Sir Winston Named No Seconds
By JOHN HALL
LOS ANGELES,--Two boys, The commentator began with
aped 13
ORC
and another
nged 15, fought a duel with kniper in a park here. The older boy is in hospital with a Rerious tab wound near the heart. The other is charged with violating an 1872 Califor; nia Statute.
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biographical detalls of the con- testants and worked through a vivid description at the pre-
the climax an minaries to pouncement that the rivals had
taken up positions 25 paces epart and were awaiting tho
DUELLING in 19537 It command to open fire.
happen.
Only
Four shots were
hourdosa. recently, listeners in many then allence broken by the paria.
and commentator reporting that, all South America perhaps, four chots had missed.
of
North
the two Los Angeles boya
among them heard an eye.
оп
Had there been" "a"B.BC;
witness radio commentary cuntry ugo Brilishisteners heard tho danie sort of brondcast. Lord Cordl- gan fought a fellow offleer, and winged him, on Wimbledon Common in 1841, and two yes. later an officer named:Munto killed his brother-in-law Livţa duel at Holloway.
a pistols-for-two chal- might have lenge in Uruguny.
Charming
Of The Theatre
By RICHARD
FINDLATER
HE most notorious great devotion, to the theatre," other
lift in London creaks she says.
management though, like most of the pillars, she is not under contract to Beaumoni, Shining in the sky above Hammersmith with Elleen
"Folle comme whe Ameri- caine" was how he put it. But he bought me a bottle of Pouilly Fulssce
and a paper bag full of cherries. So I'm not at all sure that I was so mad, after ell. Have you ever been bought
slowly upwards into Back to Pillar. Number One- anything by an English ticket
the
above Mr Gielgud. aky collector, dear sir or madam?
Shaftesbury Avenue. There And so night fell in
It was his brilliant, 1939 pro- Herlie is another particular ster in a series of heavy crashes, all this just room in it for me and duction of Wilde's The Import- of the Tennent's galaxy-Pamela absolutely way were
Scuth through
ance of Being Earnest France. my brief case.
(with Brown, PILLAR NUMBER SIX Dame Edith, Peggy Ashcroft, of the 1933 season. But at seven o'clock in marning all of a sudden thero When it jerks to a standstill, and, Jack Hawkins) that mark- See him labelled as First Class was Italy, represented by a
high above the West End, Ida
cd a new turn in Tennent's Holder of a rallway pass blazing great slice of blue sky. have arrived In tho head policy. Elaborate, Shots him happier, serener Italy swam by my window
revivals, quarters of the British theatre: costume Smoother, brighter,
neater, all day.
Blue
ECA with pebbly beaches and not a soul for miles. (I could not under stand this, as my one dream that sea and was to get into
accumulated wash off all the grit of Victoria, Dover, Calais, the Gare du Nord, and the Gare de Lyon.)
Blue sky with pink villas
lutty defied about On
hills, wearing strange red roofs like
Endicss funny hats, z
own where bullocks smooth as mushrooms alanked steadily, fetching in the hay.
cleaner.
Better (please forgive
word)
the
Than his brother in the Third,
So friendly
I decided that I was at heart
Class If Thed
pas- senger. I went along the train
look. How right was. Here the age of Chivalry was still alive. J
to have
Two American G..s in nicely tollered tiddley sults were dandling dots belonging two. French Indles.
They were on leave, they sald, get- The French ting off at Paris,
ladies
banding were
garlic sausage.
bo
5
round
So sane
grey
mea-
ENOA, where the tenement housca are festooned with washing and scarlet hibiscus on strings... Rapallo, there
were the same yes. And Oh,
dear English Arls culled where Eisio and Jo-an with a bax the train labelled for various.
two
une of porters meets
PRETENDER
Pamela Brown was "spotted" opulent at Oxford, and in 1942 she made big West End success in with the a Here is the office of the greatest players on the English Claudio. Prince Charming of the unholy stage, began to succeed matince trade the mysterious and l- plays and thrillers. powerful Hugh ("Binkle") The war-and CEMA-helped Beaumont, an ageless 45-year- Beaumont to make the change.
who hrads tho old bachelor Arm of H. M. Tennent, Ltd., productions out on
He was the first manager to get tour in Britain's leading management. October 1939, and he introduced
Discreetly
BUT it was not till 1949 that she worked under Beau- The Lady's Not for Burning, mont's management-in. Fry's
a play bought by Tesnent's for John Gielgud.
elegant, in grey sharing terins,
Tennent's stars got a per flannel, he sits above the Globe - as one uncharitable com- petitor puls it "clad in the centage of box-office receipts,
be thousand stars" on top of a £10 busie wage, And beauty, of &
a decisive effect on Beaumont has always bellevert this had in the stars and the ers their morale. believe in hiri.
The Tennent sky is full
of
them.
STAR STORY
NO TAX
"Ginkle always pretended to very alarmed of me as a highbrow lady," she says. taken him years fo and that I'm not."
iZL'a
She pays tribute to Beau- mont's understanding of "the
THEN, In 1942, Gielgud's tour-
ing Macbeth marked another processes and agonics of seting." turning point.
Why, after all, So, too, does PILLAR NUMBER SEVEN the latest star in the should such a production pay en- Tennent sky, Margaret Leigh- tertainments tax, when exempton, now at the
oll round? S
Haymarket Shaw's
Apple Cart the After talks with CEMA (parent Orinthia (the part created by
of today's
Council), Dame Edith, and modelled on Arts Beaumont founded Tennent Mrs Patrick Campbell). "Binkle Plays, Ltd, as a non-profit-
Is the only production lie's
of
in this
(they said) hotels and the train snores off BUT there are, I think, seven tions were granted
through a tunnel where every the sun blinds now and then through a think in the rock and the cliff falls sheer to the blue,
lunch who were with the Poly. Elsic Jo-an were counting fire and they had never been to Rome before either.
Iato same-
of the eternal sea. Pisa, where
particular pillars Beaumont empire. Coronation year.
They aro John Gielgud.
Pamela Brown, Margaret Leighton,
Thic
the sausage (and very prey Elsie and Jo-an, maddened by Diana" Wynyard, Damo Edith making company for the pur- always makes you feel that this it Lasted too) and for
Evans, Terence Rattigan, Elleen pose of producing plays ac- doing," says Miss Leighton. two inactivity and lack of spending I think Elsie and Jo-an power, sprang from the train Herlic, prs would have given me some of and purchased pink plastic re-
Ds money thetr
well.
productions of the Leaning Because in the Third, you sec, Tower, everybody shares with every- You shouldn't really approach
Reme
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Men On Ice
Months
For Four
mer
his
and cepted as educational."
Here, then, are Seven Pillars That was an historic step. For in the world of Hugh Beau- I talked to Beaumont and it enabled Beaumont to stage a moat. As long as he keeps the the stars to find the story of series of starry revivals--and loyalty and trust of such stars this man who has been a power new plays toc-which would not as these, he will still command
have been economic without the the British theatre from behind the scenes for 20 years,
indirect State subsidy that tax- little ofce in the Globe. exemption provides..
His secret? Says Pillar Num- "I think he saved the English ber One, John Gielgud: "He is a theatre," said Noel Coward." brilliant critic and a tremendous Gleigud first acted under
Nowadays the name is Ten- planner. I find him so construc- Beaumont's management In
And tive, because he really contri- nent Productions, Ltd. 1980. He appeared, in Dodio
franted en butes something to the produc Smith's long-runner- Dear ax-exemption
ihe basis of an educational on. And he's incredibly tact- Octopus.
policy. This means that the firm ful"
PILLAR NUMBER ONE. the first. player of the British stage. is John Gielgud.
ger,
the stars, or
on tax-
DANGER
But Gielgud had first mot can stage a Globe Revue (now By FRANK SWANSON
Beaumont twelve years before, touring) to balance its budget, at a little converted cinema in as long as it presents a Venice Barnes. "He used to pay out Prezerv'd. OLDEST men for the tides and currents about the
our salarica every Friday,"
against Beaumont? -Gielgud tells
But Beaumont does not only THE case me, "and very next four months are Arctic Ocean,
You won't hear it from the rely on Hattersley-Smith will compare small they were too.” likely to be three who are the characteristics area and
exemption. He has playwrights, stars, But business rivals and in 1927 bent on spending the sum- thickness of the ice shelf with
Beaumont Joined too, in his empire, And 1942 theatre critics are less enthuslas-. and Autumn
Moss Empires, where he in what is known of the ice Islantis,
met was also the year that he first tie about his virtues. They ray:.. He keeps control of 160 many Canada's remotest and most while Blockader will carry on his future partner Harry Ten- staged a play by Terence Ratti-
ment, the firm's booking” mana- gan PILLAR NUMBER FOUR, theatres and stars (though the Beological tests. northerly possession.
Globe is the only playhouse Scientists believe that shelf
Rattigan's famous French with which Tennent's is officially One of the men comes ice, which varies from the pack
Tennent was 54, Beaumont Without Tears (which brought connected). from Kent. His name is ico common in the Arctle, stems
from the remnants of the Glacial 20, when they launched a new him £23,000) had been followed Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, Age.
uses tax exemption to enterprise in 1933 Moss Em- by three flops. But Flare Path wartime Royal Naval lieu-
with all-star piros and Howard
finance revivals ATV was a big success," Wyndham Tours. It was the
casts-but seldom to stage new tenant and Oxford
start of the Tennent empire.
Since then Beaumont 109 plays.. graduate. His father, Major Skis and cnowshoes will be
presented overy Rattigan playIts productions aro in a PILLAR NUMBER TWO → W. P. A. Hattersley-Smith, used as weather conditions vary.
(except The Browning Version). stereotyped juste and stylo. Diana Wynyard ---was the star And In August he hopes to stage lives at the Crossways, Both men will wear standard
He pays too much attention to Cranbrook.
Canadian Army clothes, and they of cae of their biggest carly sue Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien the stars. will test mukluk-type rubber
cesses - Sweet Aloer, in 1834. Leigh in Rattigan's play about All these may be valid. Another is a Canadian, bool designed for me in wet It ran for 10 months, and the Coronation year of 1911. Robert Blackader,
Canadian explorer veterrin snow by bush tundra traveller and Thomas Manning. Arctic expert.
They have no radio and will be completely cut off from the uulside world until picked up at Alert in October.
Walrus meat is in short supply
A Greenland. Eskimo will. help these two. His ten-tog in the Arctic this year so two and a quarter tons of frozen horse- team will pull 7,500 lb. of meat will be flown to Alert with supplies.
the party. Base will be about 50° The dog team cals 301b. a day, miles west of Alert, weather plus a normal ration of fish and station on the north coast of other food available along the
A COAXER
He
charges. I agree with many of
Inunchod association with ***Beaumont which still continues, PILLAR NUMBER FIVE of them.
the Coronation year of 1953 is I think that the semi- Miss Elleen Horlic, now starring monopoly with which Beaumont in Venice Preserv'd. She pays is linked is potentially dancer- tribute to the lact of the In- ous for the future of the theatre. visible Man, as Beaumont hás But nobody can deny his fine DEAUMONT did not "415 been called. "Nothing is too record of productions in the last
cover Diana Wynyard, Ho much trouble for Binkle.
Ho decade,
or the allegiance of has made his fabulous reputa- has enormeus patience."'- tion mainly by coaxing stars, not
most great names in the theatre, behind his or the rare talents rise to power.
Will
his reign continuo In at Hammersmith that the Now. Elizabethan era as a And when PILLAR NUMBER, Unsere land. When they attersley-Smith and his com THREE-Damo Edith Evans Herlihy when she was born in think, on the Seven Pillars
Mbs HorileIt was spelled power for good? That depends, will gather data for the
on Beaumont's dair. It Joint: Canadian-United States panion wore flown to Thule, on first worked for. Tennent's she Glasgow, 33 years ago made and
above depends, expedition to the Island.
all, on finding West Groenland.coast, some was already one of the great her London triumph seven years and encouraging a new Eliza- the White men last visited this days ago in U.S. four-engined numes of the British theatre ago In The Eagle Has Two bethan drama. constal area about 30 years ago. bomber, where they picked up it happened in 1937 in a play Heads.
What do they want to find out! their driver and his Eskimo stod St. John Ervine had written for
Their
by creating them. ("Ho gives us the best of everything," said: one V.I.P. to mo.)
For four months, untill October, and does of the night to hér. &
The last log they will examine, details of the 180-mile ice shelf that extends Alert was made in a ski-equipped along the island's northern Dakotas, CA. consiline.
The party, will see no one until It is belloved to be the source it is time for the autumn plano of ice islands that drift with the to Elvilleation.
WES
TRIUMPH
"If some Charlotto Corday Since then, sto has played in stubbed Binklo Beaumont in his the Medea (which lost £0,000) bath," suld", Tyrone: Guthrie to Dame
Edith has worked und The Second Mry Tanqueray me once, "the British theatre almost exclusively under (Beaumont Insisted that all the would be transformed over- Beaumont's malingement ever actresses in this production night.");
good or since. "He is an exceptionally should wear slike petticoate). For able businem, man, and, has ■ And she has worked for no another question:
Now Illegal
Hourly
at isosta
The public feeling aroused by this fatal encounter put an end to duelling--though it wa ready illegal-in Britain, ordi
It is now Illegal Im countries, but in some it the adversaries are sufficiently pro- minent and the issue one": high
honour, thy mitfe obligingly look the other y and let them get on with, Providing moreover that tho affair is conducted according to what is called the Cavaller Code.
on
Under this Code only tlemon may duel: 'the man must name le challenged "seconds" within 24 hours, bhd all the seconds must meet to try to settle matters amicably.
If the peace talks fall--the
affair is referred to a Court of Honour, which decides either that the issu: is too trivial or that a duel is inevitable, Under the Code a duel may be de- clared honourably ended when. blood, the tiniest trickle,, Hás been drawn.
"That was reasonable"") when rapiers or sabres were used, but
for years pistola havakk been the general choice; 1 being reckoned that 25 puces plstokers are leks dangerous and the drill now is that general, exchange ot shots suffices.
Mostly Women
pr women.
Duelling originated in Europe among aristocrats who pre- ferred this to law actions. The Normans brought the practice to Britain. Usual issues were. matters of chivalry, rectitude
mostly women It Was u craze in France in the carly 17th century, and p French historian has recorded that between 1001 and 1609 sono 2,000 French nobleneb were killed in duels.
In tale tinės the Gran were the great duellists,
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for students duelling scars were more than the old school tie. The Nazis banned it, but it has hean rehabilitated by a Court of 'Appeal decision. early this year, and once more Germist students practise it as D sport.
In these days the ale byer. Haly is thickest with Datel challenges. ** Journalista ́ ́ aro favourite targets, with outraged. the challengers. politicians as Few reach the büllés Stage, but the publicity value of these affaires d'honneur is enormous,
Recently two Italians clashed over the height, or lack of lit, of a woman's dress
Last month American stationed in Germany (chd!= lenged another American toj h duel about a girl and found himself in court and find £173
Direct Hit-
In 1930 two Americals cided to settle a bar squabb by duelling, "with", thei Police found them charging aach other and charged wlth careless
driving,
Last century, before the merits of publlelty wore pro- perly understood, two French- men fought a balloon-duel with shotguns. One scored a direct hit, sent his adversary, crashing in Dames to death,"5" M
Two years
ago, Sit: Widston Churchill was: challenged low;
duel by an Italian bechura some remarks he made: about Italy in the House of Commons. Tho challenge: wax dispatrited by registered post with nạc? that Sir Winston's son and would be accepted b tuto if the Prime Ministers himself too old.
So, for as is kno That is Winston aus nevera econd