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·THE · CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1954.
COURT OF CHIVALRY
Sits For First
Time:
In 217 Years
MANCHESTER ACTION AGAINST THEATRE
London, Dec. 21.
The doors of the Lord Chief Justice's court- room on busy Fleet Street swung shut today and blotted out six centuries of history,
Outside, impatient car drivers tooted horns in the daily traffe jam, crowds hurried to and from offices arms laden with Christmas packages, a jet plane scramed across the sky.
But behind the door time receded and it was Olde England again, England of the days of chivalry when knighthood was in flower and her armoured heroes carried their coats and arms bravely through life and gallantry into death.
For the first time in 217 years since 1731--the Court of Chi- valry met to decide whether coat of arms had been misused
CONVENED IN 1300
to
they had their
Own private prison and the right
put people Into 11,
Lord Goddard pointed out that private prisons no longer | existed und the lawyers for Mancheste: said that they would be satisifed with a £100 nne. keep
claimed They
that the vaudovilie theatre had displayed
The Court was frat con- vened in 1300 to
knights from hackling each other mortally in disputes over the precious inalania which identified them lo war and in peace.
the cout of arms
arms before "many
worthy, persons.“
"Who are the worthy per inquired the song?"
Chief
But though the Court met to
with all of the ancient rituai | Justice. "Is that the audiencs?"
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Rita May Go
Back To Work
New York, Dec. 21. .
Actress Rita Hayworth and Columbia Pic- The lawyer said it was, in the tures are close to an agreement which would pay with bit of a 20th century let usual manner of pleading before the red-haired star $1,000,000 in settlement of past
Courts of Chivalry.
down
at
pageantry, the caso
Noble warriors did not glure each other itching to lay brondsword across the throat of a rival or at the least challenge him to a tilt a the lances,
The Jousters today were, alas, only the Manchester Palace of Varieties, which is vaudeville theatre, and the City of Man chester, which claimed mildly that the Theatre was using its coat of arms on la curtain with- cut authorisation,
Lawyers from both sides even took great pains to make clear It was a friendly action-and the bones of the knight who Bought on this very spot when It was the Jousting arena of Lincolns Inn must have stirred uneesily.
Thore was much reading from financial arrangements and set the stage for her archaic
documents and parch-return to motion picture work, it was reported ments.
The learned pursuivants and today. Leralds and Kings-at-Arms sald
that although the years have Attorneys for Miss Hayworth
of-arms is silll a sacred trust.
of
The
$1,000,000
settlement
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passed in their hundreda a coat-and a spokesman for the picture would bring to an end a sult Miss Hayworth company agreed that intensive brought by So the ruled
that the City Manchester had
won its case against the use of its coat-of arras even though the theatre's attorney argued precedents going back to King Richard II who was murdered in 1400.
Lord Chief Justice negotiations had been going on against the film company for an ROXY & BROADWAY: Grand Opening on Fri., 24th Dec.
here, and there was an indica-accounting of funds in the Beck- worth Corporation, a producing reached before the end of the tion that a settlement would bo
group in which she held 49 PÆ cent interest.
TO PAY COSTS Under the decision, the theatre will merely have to pay the costs of the action, and stop using the cost-of- arms until it receives formal permission.
But unglamorous us was the case there is only one Court in With this decided the officials Britain which can try disputes | put overcasts over their gorgeous about coats of arms and out et robes and
got into limousines the past it was re-created today, and rode away into the light a brief blur of colour, a stately winter mist. Not 11 singlo moment of courtesy in the rush prancing charger. It was quito and frenzy of pre-Christmas
London in 1954.
COURT SUMMONED The Court was summoned Into session by the Duke of Norfolk.
of Earl Marshal England. One moment it was an ordin ary court-room, then the doors wore shut and the Crier of the Court slowly came towards the dals leading a procession ablaze in gold and crimson,
Behind him came the pur- suivants and heralds of the Col- lege of Arms in scarlet tunics and dark blue gold braided trousera.
u let-down-United Press.
'I'm Fed Up'
year.
Mr Harry Cohn, Columbla President, roturned to California yesterday after talding part in negotiations here.
There were reports that Miss Hayworth would return to work --on a straight $150,000 to $200,- 000 per film salary-ins "Josoph FLEC His BrethrUI," which is Miss iJayworth and · her | scheduled to go into production husband, singer Dick Haymes, soon.
are at their Nevada hame or ‡ Reporte cald also that the Lake Tahoe, and it was under-settlement included provision stood here that the attorney, Mr for Mr Haymes employment by Bartley Crum, would fly there Columbin, but this was not con- when a settlement is reached. firmed.-United Press.
HOOVER
CAUSEWAY BAY
Says Ex-Queen BARBARA
Narriman
Lausanne, Dec. 21,
Former Queen Narriman
Then the Lord Chief Justice, of Egypt said today that Lord Goddard and after him the she is "fed up" with stories
Duke of Norfolk in a cocked hat circulating
with white plumes, at scarlet | divorce. tunic with the Blue Sash of the
about her
Commenting on a Cairo report
arder of the Garter across his, that she was now seeking a abest.
The three Kings-at-Arms who are the Queen's Chief Officers of Chivalry, look up stations on the dais,
The Duke of Norfolk bowed
reconciliation with her doctor husband Nakeeb, she told the United Press that "there never. was any question of me modify- my standpoint in connection
the divorce I requested."
D
to them and they returned his "I prefer to ignore all these bow.
reports and will stay
Then Richmond Herald read a Lausanne as long as I Uke and document
by King as long as it is necessary for my signed Charles II in 1672. which give health," she added, the Duke of Norfolks the right to enil such courts.
DUKE SPEAKS
Is referred to a previouN document of “our mori dekr arandfather James, some- ! time" Hing of England of bleed
memory"! Bad added
thas this right was smirned. is the then Duke of Norfolk - and" "his heirs, male of his
Norfolk spoko this outh;
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Asked 18 It was trưo that sho
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mit
to. stay in Switzerland, ex- Queen Närriman said, "I do not
“I, Bernard, Duke of Norfolk, need such a permit as the Egro- do solamaly declare I will do tlan Government has issued, ma right to all manner of people a diplomatie: paarport before X according to the law art usages left Egypt for Switzerland."- of arms without four or favour, Unlied Press, affection or ill-will."
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