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Ann Durrant, who will be taking part in the ballet xequences of Guldford's Coronation pageant, ties her slipper
before going on.to`practise.
FROM THE FILES
100 YEARS AGO
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The following account of a fish, which nearly ruined it, and disturbance caused by the mla- then committed ravages on the token zeal of 2 missionary, other articles. The real ques sucks somewhat of the Sumon ni issue, however, was eners nffair at Macao, though | had the captain been guilty of fortunately nothing more tragical negligence or not? So tar us occurred at Jerusalem, than the the stock-fish went, and the hurting of a dead cat at the head damage arising from it, the of the offender:
defendant established his case: but he
to have over appeared looked the fact that there was one other cause of damage, amely, u single bale of flannels had been stained by oil leakage, and although the defendant proved the oil to have been im- properly pucked, he did not satisfactorily recount 10: the damage done by it
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DEFENDANT WINS
CHINA MAIL
By letters of the 24th March we learn that on Palm Sunday there was a battle between the Greek and Armenian Christ- ions, in the Church of the af Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre about a lamp. Several
persons were wounded. The Catholles remained neutral. "The English missionaries were turned out the Church of the Holy Sepulchre because
The defendant's counsel, who ap peared to be taken by surprise when haved in an unseemly manner, in fact came out in course of when the procession passed on evidence, alleged that it had been studiously kept back; but although Good Friday," A missionary it was proved that the plaintiff had named Crovford (7 Crawford) not informed the defendant that any preached a sermon outside the oil-damage had occurred, a survey of the 1)-damaged flannel had beca service wns synagogue, while
Was tried among the documents pro- going on within, and indulged owed to be used by the plaintif
stol, invectives
and therefore the against the at the
defendant's legal advisers might have Incensed at this, hurled a
n which coalstaet dead
m the face
the sininently qualified of the questions at this description, found reverend gentleman; Me Croyler the defendent on all the counts ford' friends camo to tho except that relating to the flannel THE handsome young Tescue, the Jews supported the damaged by all, and for this gave the paintif $25,46 Onding for the
had an appointment at un defender of the Mosale rites, Defendant on all the other points.
hotel in Park Lane, He went др a regular night ensued, The result of this will be, that the there by road, and when his "It rained stones and mud," uv, faxation of costs, will
over and ho recover only such as relate to the engagement was
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almud. One of the children of learnt this fact. The special jury,
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THE
Established 1845
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1953.
Walkie-talkies go into action to control the stage hands at Guildford's pageant
GUILDFORD. “UILDFORD, the county'
town of Surrey, which could not raise £140 to pay "for"a "gold"" plute ` dinner- service presented to Charles II when he visited the place nearly 300 years ago, has had no such trouble in anding the celebrate the money to Coronation.
In spite of a rigid, enonomy drive the corporation have
pag
granted 15000 representing Just
rate-for decoration
A Pageant, procession and entertainmenta which will inst more than ten
pro
Traders' £1000 Trailers in the towin have sontributed another £1000, and everyone, taking part is giving Hier help voluntarily Q viding materials at cont price.
'The celebrations will begin at
• m, with 1000wrong pro- Non through the malu mreets. It will take one hour
and 15 minutes to pass.--
Then the entertainmenta will move to the Gorporation's 170- acre Stoke Park where, from 5.30 conwards, there will be parades of 100 horses, 150 altow dogs, and the Chiddingfold Farmers Foxhounds; folk, old Imme and square dancing: Kymnastle-und physical training displays and musical interludes.
Hy nine ́p'clock, when the
by DEHIFE RICHARDS
1000 cast pageant "Elizabeth to Elizabeth begins, at least 20,000 people are expected to be there.
The partent has five episodes. starting. with Elizabeth's visit to Guildford when she was a few weeks' old,
It has boon written by Mi Maille Liggett, 40-yearold, alim and dark-haired, who has been ehset librarian or the borough for 11 years, and Mr. Jack Peny- cale, 40-year-old journalist, who has taken an active part in amateur
years.
dramatics for many
"Our main difficulty was the limitation of an open air theatre no quick dialogue, was possible in case a huge audience missed some of the lines in spite of the microphone." Miss Liggett anid today.
Research team
"The script took LES two months to complete, working si wights and al week-ends.
It would have taken weeks longer if the authors had not had the help of Dr. Enid. Dance. scholarly, middle-aged curatar of Guildford's museiim, and rive sait of the library They did mol of the historical research.
Rehearsals began in halls and canteens last April, and now pre bold-almost nightly on the alte. The." theatre is two sides of a
Angela Derodiaconou, dve, is also dancing. She is being coached here by Miss Bellairs.
JOE GOES TO THE DOGS
actor
of transport had dis-
and the missionary and his oil, and will have to pay the left the hotel, be found that his friends were obliged
on all the other means to seek Defendant's costs
matters in dispute. We understand appeared. safety
In fight Nautical there were other claims relating to
Standard, May 7.
DAMAGES. ACTION
damage by stockfish, to the amount of nearly $10,000, which this verdiet |will of courré put an end to.
AN
IRONIC SITUATION
He found a policeman reported his loss,
and
"What kind of pedal-cycle did you say?" the officer asked,
of
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
the officer with the retentive memory..
evidence.
ho "ON,
"He's a fur-naller by trade, but he's been unemployed for the last three months.
.
shallow valley, and is being pre- pared by Mr. Donnid ("Fairy' Fairbairn, the deputy borough surveyor On one sito is a 40 yard x 30 yard grass "stage" with a Just-square wooden stage on the other side the audience will stand, or if they are lucky, get one et 2500 seats available. Two hundred old people and VIPs will have reserved scots.
The back cloth is the borough's coat-of-armYLA. Bl Aurprise for the finale will bo the dropping of a second back- vioth with a "top secret" design.
Teenagers danco
the
Quildford is proud of ballet company it has had since Lite war and the pageant epi Nodes will be linked by ballet sequences. Choreographer Miss Bice (pronounced "Beechy) Bellaira, vivacious 41-year-old founder of the company. Music has been specially composed by Lord Chelmsford under hla Tamily name of Andrew Thesiger, Two hundred tem azers will take part.
Mia Bellairs in the wife of Liest-commander Alastair McKean: 15-year-old Plana, one of their three children, in danc- ing in the ballet. Another dancer will be Dawn. Lord Chelmsford's 18 year old daughter.
Costumes for the principals in the pageant are being hired for £150. Another £100 has been spent on cost-price materials for the rest of the costumes which are being made by volun teers in the councillors rest room at the municipal offices now the wardrobe department- under the supervision of 1101se wife Mrs. Prances Denyer and clerk to the borough treasurer. Mis Jay Todd,
'A jig-saw'
"At present the pageant is like *gigantic iz-zaw puzzle which has to be put together, at the Just minute," said Miss Liggett
On THE day she and Mr. Penycate will control the per- torosers and stage-hands with walkie-talkies lent by the Royal Grammar School.
At 11 p.m. there will be a torch fight procession and fireworks display. The famous cobbled High Street, with the one-in-11 gradient, has always - boạn the site for public dancing since it was built 700 years ago, and the tradition will be maintained on Coronation Day. From 11.30 p.m. until 2 a.m. music will be relayed to the dancera from the Gulld. hall.
.
Mr. Codd's idea
All Guildford agrees that it has one man, more than any other, to thank for the pians. He in Mr. Leslie Codd, the town's 47-' year-old senior councillor, who_ thought of the idea and, with backing of local youth organisations, put It to the corporation.
the
"Without Mr. Codd's efforts we might well have only had a procession and a fireworks' dia- piny,” says Mr. Penycate.
“Now Mr. Codd is chairman of the Entertainments Committee who control.. 25 (aub-committees and, 120 members.
"We want to provide a day's good, but free, entertainment so that all our people, whether rich or poor, can take part," he said to-day.
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"I understand," the officer vera added, sounding disapproving. (Vocal): 1, Time Signal-David Rose "he's a man who bots Heavily. and his Orch; 1.15, News, Weather Ho ahem frequents dog Report and Announcements! tracks."
Music for you; 2, Joe the Carrier Lad The public gallery's admiration Programme of music from the for Jos became almost tangible, Midlands (BBCT9); 2.3, Small Combo Conceri; 0, “A Tale of two | Ciklon" by Charles Dickens (DECTS) ---Terence Katilgan and John Gle}- Sud-Adapted for Radio and Produced by Cleland Fino; 430, 18C Concert (Piano). al-Jascha Spivakovsky The Royal Philharmonia Orch, cond. by Clarence Narbould (BBCTS): 3,30, Vicaneso Memories-Robert Stolz fuse; 0, Timo Bignal and Pro- was gramme Summary: 0.03, Children's
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officer. "I see a doctor
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Our readers may remember
Joe was taken to the the particulars we gave (Ching
pollca JOE'S brother went into the
witness-box and station, and next morning was Mail, No. 412, July 6) about the
"A sports model," the actor brought to Bow Street, a melan-though he felt somehow Hamburg brig Lima, which
answered, and named the make, eh ly youth of 23, whom to look blame for Joe's misfortune in arrived here in December last,
and did his best with the rest at you would say life brought being so with a general cargo, partly
of the particulars
rich: "As I couldn't the police few joys. consisting of stockfish, in which
like to have when
give
him work, sir, he went to n worm (Dermestes) of a nost
a bicycle astray the angle
He pleaded not gulity, and Mr the dogs." at destructive nature had generat
which the handlebars are set, the
Bertram Reece called for the Mr Rcoce called back the ed. Some months afterwards
Fontainebleau, Aug. 2.
number of
springs in the saddle, (April 13,) the Swedish banque Britain's offer to exchange and the rest.
The young actor spoke his few called" he cald. "Why was our-The Pied Piper"-A Scandia arrived In Д similar atomic information with the
| Cameo · Cartoon by Trevor Hill.' Le Presently all these particularsince about his loss with con- condition; and has been the United States focussed attention were engraved in the mind trolled feeling, and said he "Prisoner said he felt, III when cidental muste composed by Hoo occasion of n jury trial, which today on the Ironie aluation in every policeman in London.
valued his bicycle at £10; the ho arrived at the station," said Martin (BBCTS): 0.30, The songs of took place on Saturday Jast, Europe where the two principal They must have been. How officer .with the retentive the officer. "I might add, heule Styne: 7 South American
the 23rd.)
Allied air commanders are for else account for the fact that a memory described Joe's arrest: The nellon
was brought by bidden to talk to each other fortnight later
Forces, and was then discharged Archie Andrews. Nopeat of Lubeck & Co., consignees of about details of their most potent named Joo was stopped as
a pale youth 66N him, when searched," the with curtain Hamburg goods, against weapon.
neurosis." officer added, "defendant
AA Thursday's Broadcast (BBCTS): 7.80. Von:Sydow, "tiro,miašter of the
The magistrate turned to Joe. Weather Report: bicycle
Time' Bignal and Swedish barque Scandia, for Lauris Norstad, now alled deputy round the quiet streets of the ad 11 £5 notes, dû £1 notes, "Pay a fine of £5 and 12s. Od. Wane News Loudots els an
The US Air Force General Pedalled the
1 in silver and Bd. In conta", he ordered, and sald to Artist of the Week Andres Segovia damage mustained by different commander for air in Europey is
* bronze."
the articles during the course of the forbidden by American senation WHERE did you get that
polloc: "Let the bicycle be Guine); 1 020, Variety - Fantare- "The public. gallery, which up restored to Its owner."" /
From the North of England (DUCTS); voyage from Hamburg to Hong- to talk stomie matters with, hal
P. "The Lamp Talk on "Too kong. The pleadings, which principal subordinate, Britain's
bike?", the policeman asked till then had regarded. Joe with him.
bleak Indifference, now looked the scot they had given him in finansialo 10. The Forces The actor slipped away from by Geoffrey, Coxhead (Studio); 9.16. Record Review presented by Curtis perinpa tho most Sir Booli Embry, an Air: Chief
"Got it in Club Row," Joe at him with something like ad the stalls, to claim his bicycle. Show Recorded London: Relay); voluminous over seen in our Marshal in the Royal Air Force,
Sir, Basil, bound by Britain's answered. "Give £7 for it".
aniration. Joe had little to sax and then negotiate the tangled News Reel (London Supreme Court, asserted. In the
10.30, Weather Report: 211, Radíó "Got a receipt?" the policeman for himself, and the magistrate traffic in Covent Garden with it code of rigid | official secrets tact, cannot declaration, deterioration
Relay): 11,10, stock-Ash,
God Save The cheese,
found the case,proved, blanketa, talk to Gonoral Norstad about asiced.
Joo was led off to British developments, "NO"
"He's a man of previous good flannels, oil, and charry cordial, now
the bunais fine. Queen; 1130, some down And from believed in
bucgallery by the negligence of the defen- which are widely
was met by military circles to include ex Who'd'you sny, you bought Itcharacter," said the officer in there was e’general exodus, KS dant. This
charge of the case, stepping into a nimber of people there counter-statement, that the tremely powerful tacticni "Didn't say no ono. Never the, witness box.
wanted to have a word with Joe damage was, occasioned by weapons and possibly a "cing naked the chop his name." "A man of money, too," the about how to go to the dogs worms, and insects proceeding eye, nuclear bomb.----United "I'm going to arrest you for magistrate observed, pils | with such good purpose as bo from the plaintiff's own stock | Press.
receiving stolen property, said i "Yes, sir," the officer, answered. had succeeded in doing.
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Miss Betty Gray, a schoolteacher, will play the'part of Lady Aan Weston whose husband, Franels Weston, was beheaded. She is being fitted with her dress by Mrs.. Frances Denzez, one of the wardrobe mistresses.
Mr. Peter Shepherd (left), producer of the James I eplaode,
with some of his cast in a scene during rehearsal,
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