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Lord Wakefield: His Majesty Entertains: New Air Force Commander: Tribute To Pavlova Present To London Museum: The Air Age: British Lenses:
(From Our Special Correspondently
London, June §.
No man of our time has helped plore in the conquest of time and space than Lord. Wakefield. He is no recent convert to the belief in night as the best way of bringing the world together.
So long ago as 1910 Bir Charles Wakefield as he then was address-
ed a public meeting in the City on the urgent Imperial aspects of
aviation.
The race to Melbourne-the en-
knowing until shortly before her arrival that she would be present. Member of the audience remained
Its normal use is to "call" members wanted by ellents, but the advantage it afforded as the most convenient place from which eminent visitors could say a few words caused it to be employed for this purpose,
Among those who have thus usurped "the place of the "crier" is the present Emperor of Japan, who visited Lloyd's as Crown Prince in 1921,
Signor Marconi had a tremen- dous reception when he made a in ignorance of the Queen's pre-speech from the rostrum in 1919.
The enthusiasm then shown by sence in her box until the lights
Lloyd's was only once surpassed. went up for the first interval.
That was when Capt. Freeman received his medal for meritorious service in 1902, -
FLYING-BOAT COMMAND Wing Commander G. E. Livock, D.F.C.. "AF.C., is 'to' command No.
N
He had steered his "ahip, the 200 (Flying Boat) Squadron at
Roddam, from the inferno of the Mount Batten in the vacanMY Mont Pelee eruption, using his caused by the appointment of elbows to control the wheel be- Squadron Leader J. H.O. Jones to cause his hands were so badly- No. 202 (F.B.) Squadron at Malta.
Although recently of air start duties at Cranwell, and formerly
burnt.
THE CAMERA' IN THE AIR Although "we have plainly not
tries for which closed yesterday bears sufficient evidence that the views he then held have now be- come common property. id
He has the additional satisfac. second-in-command at the Central yet entered fully into the benefits tion of knowing that not a few of Flying School, most of Wing Com
mander Livock's service has been in connexion with the marine side of the RAF. He began as an RNAS. pilot in October: 1914, and
the best-known among the en- trants owe their fame to his sup- port.
Lord Wakedeld is said to have
spent more than £1,000,000 in few from Grain, Yarmouth, Felix ancing speed attempts of various
kinds.
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My Ivan Opffer picture shows him as a man of unimpaired
energy despite his 74 years.
ascribes his Lord Wakenėld youthfulness to the philosophy he learnt from the lips of Robert
towe, and Westgate, during the War, as well as the seaplane car Miers Riviera, Ben-my-Chree, and Engadine. In 1827-31 he was with the Far East Flight, which became No. 205 (F.B.) Squadron after its arrival at Singapore, and to the command of which he succeeded
ANNA PAVLOVA MEMORIAL Mr. Ormsby-Core informed Bir Gifford Fax: (0, Henley-on- Thames in the House or Com
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of the af age, many people will be surprised to learn that aerial photography has already become an industry on such a large scale that for the first exhibition of its kind two large floors. of Bush
House, were to-day taken up with lenses, cameras, and pictures from the afr-all of them staple pro- ducts of a nowadays staple in-
dustry.
Photographs from the air are now in universal use for engin-
eering schemes, housing develop
ment, shipping extensions, ware- housing, and the excavation of new golf courses. Town-piannars and surveyors as well as officials
Loula Stevenson, whom he saw in Samoa, "Fill your life with laugh- ter and sunlight." E. L. 8, said to him That is the best kind of success to fadlite happiness" | mons, recenky Want" ke under from the Ministry of Health and Though a loyal Lancashire man, stood that an international appeal the survey Omice are making Lord WakeZeld admits that Lon- for the funds necessary to provide increasing-te of aerial photo- a memorial in some capital to the graphs, and I was learned to-day con has the first place in his
late Anna Pavlova was being that a library of 50,000 reels of affections. No Lord Mayor has
made, more charmingly described the City over which he has presided. He said a few years ago:
London has captured me-heart be, and soul. Wherever I may London will always remain my capital of the world-the true centre of civic patriotism.
THE DERBY DINNER
P.
The King gave his urul Derby Day dinner at Buckingham Palace the recently to members of Jockey Club. About Afty guests, all men.
attended the dinner. which was given in the state din- Ing-room at the Palace..
The Prince of Wales, the Duke
aerial films has already been got together and is being circulated
among for educational use schools.
the
“I have been asked," he added, "to allow its erection in one of the Royal Parks, and have come to the conclusion that the centre
For the layman the bulk of the of the rose-garden in the Inner exhibition in Bush House, which Garden, Regent's Park is to remain open till the end of Circle would provide an admirable set the weak, will consist of the than the ting. Both the site and the pro-
rather photographs posed memorial, which will take elaborate mechanism by means the form of a fountain designed of which they are taken.
by Professor Carl Milles, of Stock-HOVERING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS holm, have been approved by the Royal Fine Art Commission...
"I should like to add that I deeply appreciate the proposed gift of the fountain by a sculptor of York, the Duke of Gloucester, of world-wide reputation not only Prince George, and Lord Harewood for itself but also as a memorial were among the members of the: to one whose art and personality Crowds gave enjoyment to so many thou- Royal Family present.
watched the tands of our countrymen." outside the Palace guests drive in, and a Ettle later they saw the Queen with her brother, Lord Athlone, and Prin- cess Alice Countess of Athlone drive out. In former years the Queen has dined at a friend's house on Derby Night.
Last night she had early dinner at the Palace with her brother and "sister-in-law and afterwards went to the Queen's Theatre in. Shaftesbury Avenue to see "Old Folks at Home." Her visit came as a complete surprise at the theatre, not even the manager
Lady Astor (C. Plymouth, But- ton), asked if, in view of the fact that there were so few places for public monuments, and that there were many women who had died for England, it was not rather far-fetched to give this site to a Russian dancer, no matter how beautiful she might have been:
There was no reply.
LLOYD'S FAMOUS ROSTRUM Lloyd's rostrum, now being given to the London Museum, has held many distinguished people in its time.
British lenses and emulsions are to the fore, and a British inven- tion has been patented by means of which a machine may be kept steady in mid-air for photographic
ciple. Whatever course aerial purposes on the gyroscopic prin- photography takes, in future it is unlikely that it will be used as a means of advertising seaside. resorts and beauty spots," for the it is camera in this case," while not exactly a liar, makes many of its points by means of strange exaggeration. Seen from the air, Chatham and Accrington and Middlesbrough and the long drab become streets in the Potteries even more depressing than they are in real life. On the other hand, seen through the lens" of the long-distance camera, they take on a snowy blossomy charac- ter which transfigures the drab- ness of slate and brick.
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