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Romeo and Juliet
with JOHN BARRYMORE
- BASIE RATHBONE : ANDY DEVINE
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FRANK
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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS
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This Astonishing New York
SURE,WE GROUSE
New York.
USTERITY over hero
by C. V. R.
is just a word used Thompson
about mothers-in- law. Far from upping the price of chidren's lunches, cept possibly a New York is giving them an extra red apple free be- cause of too bountiful a harvest.
Here, where the dollars come from, the dust carts nro gleaming silver and are filled
show call- ed "South Pacific" and the Sadler's Wells Ballet,
You can walk in and buy any car-except a Jaguar -and drivo it nway. Whisky is available by the drink, bottle, case, or car- load. Maids make £16 a week (five days to the
overy day with lenough wasted food to chd week).
rationing in Britain.
And yet for all this, New In New York there is Yorkera grumble and nothing to queue for
ex- rumble incessantly. And this is what they grumble. ¡about.
THE FINANCES OF THE
ROYAL
S
INCE Britain
London.
decided
A
to give up her finan- cial Independence and become a dollar pensioner of the United States. growing number of Ameri- they have n right Lo criticise our in- stitutions and our
way of
cana assume
life.
The monarchy is one of the institutions they are most ready to attack. With all the ardour of convinced republicans they point to the cost of maintaining i
They examine the Civil List, upon which it is sus- Lained inancially, with something of the querulous Concern of an offeinl re. ceiver eyeing the prodiga.
ities of a bankrupt.
Even at home there are critics. Not many, certain-
well-in of
ly, and not very
FAMILY...
Sandringham
House
by JOHN PREBBLE
MARY..
ELIZABETH £40,000
QUEEN PRINCESS
DUKE OF
£70,000 considerably
to
The Baitoral
estate
There is also the
from the
EDINBURGH 210,000 come
THERE
IS considerable
The Last ligations
the monarch
"of "these
surrendered
Everyone grumbles about the subway (underground) those who pay for it (the taxpayers), those who ruin it (the underpaid drivers [and guarda), * and those ob-who ride it (the unfertun-
by
nten was the Seerni
without a car and
Service The State took over chauffeur or a good pair of the payment of that from Vic-legs). toria.
True, you can go 25 miles for It was then costing £10,000. 10 cents (8 d.), but unless you revenue to the State from Its cost today must be many do the trip at 4 h.m. you end Crown Landa, which counter times that mum. balancea the public cost of
Todny royal annuities tro royalty. The from revenue voted by Parliament, inst year was £2 million.
your journey by visiting either n 90-minute cleaners or mind without doctor, or both.
consideration of whether
Of
Crown Land revenue
These
of the feudal
Lands, relies not Crown
propertica of justifies the suma.
They are a measure of the for ita
England's king, were surren- dered, for the most part, by n Uon's esteem business deal in the Lath cen- monarchy. tury.
By this deal, and by fur- ther wurrender in later year, the monarchy gave up I right to those tands and has no claim
them pow on in fact or argument.
Ran
Move over!
THE buses are not much better. My wife assures me that a bus ride in the best cure for a girl conceited about her looks. You see, they do not have clip-
debts up WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Ples.
THACKERAY.
comment-
of George ing on the Income
who man up debts £322,000
IV..
This theons that the driver ts to open and shut the pneu- almatic doors, collect the fares, give out change, ince his pos- tnx) by n
sengers to the back of the bus, for
and dodge taxicabs all at the same time.
George 1, on his necession, owed (excluding £90,000 surrendered his hereditary boisterous
in
Income
vnthustoran POMENUNG {from royal Junca
horses, women, and oriental held
by the Stuarts, by the
architecture, said:- Tudora, Arch by the Planta-
"What did he do for all this
This has produced a vocabu- £93,000 171-
genets, from special taxes, etc.)
What had any mortal ary which becomes its most 93,000-acre in return for ta
Ruamist money?
one that he should done
n girl tries be pani- vivid purple when Duchy of Lanenster, and the annuity.
to flirt her way into a bus al- pered 207" Colte from
fle benme the GLOUCESTER £35,000 £100,000
Those questions may have tady sardine-packed. vont ROYAL, 26,000 Duchy of Cornwall, traditional-
teen
Justified In regard to I asked 20 of of the Prince State, as its
friends what my ly the revenuc
IV They certainly makes them grumble most about of Wales, but at the moment goin undertook
to pay those would never be applled by the New York. Everyone of them handed voluntarily Al Ben- officers, Judges ambasad nation
to the Coorge
DUKE OF
PRINCESS
Private fortune
THESE SUMS,
salaried SCI- of the State, and the
part of the bor-
George
the Figus aver us today. (T)
Prousty by the Kitig l the who bad previously been sle of course. Treasury.
penderi for coine do not Cover the expenses
monarch.. those who receive them,
formed ones. But sufficient fortune in addition.
Birt there is a private
of
a rebuttal to justify [their criticism by accurate
information.
Modest cost
WHAT ARE the facts? Last year
paid we the £931,503 for
pomp, pageantry, and gracious- ness of our monarchy. Not
Ita foundations
royal
Gift to Treasury
were
Juic
IT SHOULD also corded that at the end of
be
re-
121 the last century, Queen the war, the King handed to i Victoria succeeded 10 the crown of anation which, for seventy preceding yeurs, had
the Treasury, as a gift, £20,- 000 interest which he had investing £200,000 Goverrunent securities.
experienced The most expen. gained by
sive monarchy known.
Kings and had shown travagance Macaulay to profesi
But for the
a very high price in rein- tion to other national ex- penditure. And most people her long reign
Victorin will say
modest enough Queen for the advantages it modestly. brought us.
CALORIES
4500
A bad ever
B
Royal
Dukes praised,
That Anancial ex-
It was
a graciuas, generous act, for which he is to be
3000
2500
has not been his only that exelted self-denying net
Despite the heavy ex- an outburst of
of hla household, penses Busterity budgeting during the war enabled him to hand back to the Treasury £100,. 000 which he had saved from his pubile Income.
greater part of in widowhornl lived quite
Careful husbandry and semil-
Rich friends
He has the right to exemp- from tax on his private wolved but he has this right. He pays the taxes on his investmenta on the same scale as his subjects.
Free of tax
HIS PUBLIC income, paid by the nation is, of course, free of tax. It was not always
1200
a moment's who answered without
thought-bad. mannera. You see. there
are 0,000,000 people in New York, and New York of fla only 30 mulda and at its broadest only 16% miles.
---thondor- Sepress Service):
The colortes vou-need for your job and your age
"Stoke up"-or your work will suffer
longest
115
ruggle for survival,
In a struggle
there is no
Is no ume for please or
thank you, or even that warming New York
"You're of yesterday.
Even New Yorkers joke about it. Their latest is about the gizl who said manners were improv→
Sold she, ing.
"A man in the subway sat down today just to give me more room to stand,"
Of course, there is a housing shortage
York, and grumbling about
everyong
that.
New
New
Yorkers are resticas people. Before the war it was m
for everyone
custom
overy September 30.
to move
who
Now the lucky people have a place to live have had
the years.
same apartment for ten They want a change of
scenery.
Look out!
retirement from public life tion Of this деаг million over a lengthy period enabled income,
to accumulate £511,715 went in
avust for- cash her
tune. payments to members of
According ไอ the Royal Family, the
biographer Lytton Strachey, she eventual- rest towards the upkeep ly found herself a person of of royal residences. great wealth." Incidentally. these do not include Sandringham or Balmoral, which are the
When income inx was King's private property-
introduced in 1842 Victoria- and maintained by his pri- must have added greatly.
closest friends were among submitted all her Income to the richest men in Europe tux, to encourage the nation to
ACIENTISTS who have men like Sir Emost Cassel. face the terrible imposition of
ried out nutritional research day are much greater if three Department is still broke from 7d. in the £.
DEFCC on two points, which meals are taken. Edward VIL. continued the seem to condemn the "ea and practice, but, with
Chart the ne-itoast" breakfast:- of Georgo V. It was
vate fortune.
Higher bills
TO THE FORTUNE kett King Edward
she VII. Its
As they invested, so probably As their dld be.
millions
so must hls have done.
cossion
re-
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
car- The chances of doing this every
HEAR grumbles that New York's streets, far from being paved with gold, are not paved nt mil. One local newspaper is running a daily photograph of o pothole with ruler beside it to show its depth. The record so far 18.6 inches deep
Then there is grumbling over the dirt. silver dust carts, the Sanitation For all its gleaming
спива
the £2,500,000 job of clearing WHAT DID
the King
abova based
on the great snow of 1947, and (t. receive out of the total
figures given by Şir
afford to cannot Jack
tidy
up after the world's untidiest people. sum granted by the nation?
Threo meals a day make Drummond top British diet ex- Plumbers the body a more efficient pert shows the amounts of grumbling because they will not: * lot of He received £350,715 for
The annuities paid to other a million pounds members of the Royal Family, machine for doing work than energy needed daily by different come to mend a leaking tap. the support of himself.and in one day in steel.
however, are subject to income two meals. the Queen, for the salaries
but with sub- of his staff,
of his fortune at fax and surtax,
It was once published in discontinued American newspapers had made
that ho
types of people. If quotas are not supplied, health
The size
he paid £12,354 for fuel, Valuable. estates
£1,573 for telephone service,
•
there even though they and their mates get £14 a day for doing it. A man grumbles about the price of a ready-made suit (18 guineas), the sad state of boxing.. A woman grumbles about the cost of ice cream (4s. 3d. a pint), babysitters, who refuse to work unless there is a TV set, and the door-to-door salesmen, who pe ter: her with everything from nylons to frying pans.
and for the his death has never been dis- stantial and necessary allow-2 The best way of ensuring and work must suffer.
En adequate supply of expenses of his household. closed. For royal wills, of ances for expenses.
for a bout of hard The energy is given in heat Those household expenses course, are Stale secrets,
In 1923 the Premier, then energy can be heavy. Before the war
Baldwin, stated work or exercise is to take a units calories because the Mr Stanley
nourishing meal two body burns up fuel like a that 80 percent of the in light,
machine, come of the Royal Princes was hours or so before.
full effetency, railoning exempt from taxx.
streng- Today's THE PRIVATE fortune of
every needs regular stoking, thens there points. the King today includes Today Princess Elizabeth
For, with fals and proteins
to work of Edinburgh
without Like the rest of us he finds the valuable estates and forms and the Duke
a gap of 16 those bills several times higher of Balmoral, bought by Vic- are taxed on 20,000 of their restricted the only way to get than they used to be.
tora, and Sandringham, joint £59.000 annuity. Annuities paid to the rest of bought by Edward VII. Since means that their income the Royal Family are:-
ho has added percent. free of tax
and £3,592 for laundry, encli
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NANCY 7
Hat Trick
his
accession
YES ---IF You DON'T SCRATCH
IT UP
I HAVE AN IDEA- TAKE
OFF YOUR HELMETS
For mach'ne Going breakfast means
That enough energy in Britain is to hours or so in the body's fuel is 80 cat plenty of bulky foods like supply.
bread, cereals, and
-London Expren Servicë)
potatoes.
By Ernie Bushmiller
My own pet grumble-Now Yorkers grumble too much,..
--(London Express Servico);
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WITH DOT
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