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Pranks are rare, for the hotel management la politely regreĶul

Mayfair butler stroll By RONALD GARTH-DAVIS to the vulgar and orientatious.

ed to the Bank of England once a month and banked

To The Arts

By

R. G. WEETLOCK

The

A daring confidence trickster who ran up a bill of £08 not THE Inment of the au- Covent Garden, London - long ago was brought to

to book

thor of Ecclésiastes cluding the Hibrary. Apart from before he could run. Even some

this, the nobual grant to A royal sulte at Claridge's his tips. Closeted backstairs the first Royal Command with his prudent house- film show in London. 800 can run from one to fifty inter of the best-known Hollywood that riches came not to men Royal Opera House for running

stars have likened Claridge's to of understanding is not expenses was £145,000. communicating rooms. As many the proverbial eye of the needle. keeper wife he often talked guests flocked to a party of as eighteen can be linked by a Glerin Swanson, Paulette God-quite so tragically true as it The audiences at the Royal

the

used to be. corridor beyond

Perhaps Opera House were considerably over his plans for buying a film stars at Claridge's. To private

dard and Orson Welles, however,

is a rather dis- larger then "riches" are Claridge habitues.

in the previous hotel. The butler's name celebrate the first year of main hotel corridor. In case a

putable word; but it is cer- year and reached da average was Claridge..

the Dominion of Pakistan, queen wishes to be waited

hand and foot, there are four-

opera and Van Thuyne walters, six maids, two valets, a

tainly true that in the Eng- of 5 percent for

14 percent for baket. There He dreamed of a qulet manager

and

land of today men of under- are in all seven opers and bal- pantryman to every floor, 14 people stating 50

under no lot companies performing in but elegant establishment thought nothing of staging porter

a birthday party for 1,000.

rooms. No other hotel boasts

their London which beg

are associated where the highest in the

such standards of service,

with the Arts Council. Claridge himself once re- land could be housed in fit-

gretted there was no room

ting style. Today, little re for a fugitive Fopc. "I am mains of the young butler's

so full up with kings and odyssey except his goodwill royal dukes that I doubt if and a couple of his diaries I can find proper accommo- found in an old tin box in a dation for him. Still," he cellar during demolitions. brightened up, "as his Holi- Yet in the eyes of cele ness is a bachelor, he might brities all over the world- not need so many rooms!" his prestige goes marching

on.

Claridge's is still the only hotel on, the globe whero

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One of the worst moments in

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standing

Yet sometimes the boot is on the other fool. A young English necessity Army ameer badly wanted to bread. spend New Year's Eve dining

and dancing at Claridge's.

tho

are to

which the

the and

Tho Counci controlz For In other words, there exista Claridge's was when 63 chefs

Council of Great Theatre Royal at Bristol Arts

the Arts Theatre at Salisbury, and assistants joined strikers of a week he vainly tried to book the

1s willing to another hotel, The royalties a table by telephone. Eventually Britain which

Cambridge, to while theatres at enlightened support walked with dignity to the he rang up and successfully give

of drama, music Glasgow and Kidderminster are and

association restaurant that night and feasted booked a table as the Maharajah enterprises

with the axta other contribute to sincerely on bread and cheese and coffee, of Peshawar,

Council. There are 25 theate ble the impeccable atmosphere.

silk nation's general culture.

companies in Britain asociated with the Arts Such contretemps seldom trou-

Council, cluding the Old Vic companies us that the in London and Bristol, and

the coal managements.

an-

in

In a turban made of bedspread, with his mother clad

The Arts Council's fifth On another occasion Lon- in a sart as the dowager Mahar-

or two nual report falls doners rubbed their eyes at the once, and with one sight of a white flag, with two friends, he duly enjoyed his grant from the Exchequer for number of Wes! End commer- sleeve-like

he

£575,000. streamers, dying ever the hotel flagstan. Tevement. Perhaps the crucial 1910-50

came when he paid his same as for the previous year, ovold

rivalry, contusion and airy, bill

gives details Suavely the head-walter and seldom fly their receipted it, £7.7.2. Received various enterprises which royal guests

What standards. personal

with thanks from the Maharajah Arts Council aids. monarch could possibly show a of

A Peshawar."

a matter

In the course of the year the pollte of fact, the management had white flag? Just as

was voted to a skylarking wedding guest vas no such person. But, from £25,000 confessed

hoisted had

the page boys up, Claridge's la Council to buy properties the soul of discretion.

Royal Oporn dress shirt.

WILS

of

the the

the

@

The Council ako sponsors art exhibitions and joina with municipal authorities in

25-

a disting the London Philhar-

orchestras.

another in the foyer. It is queens, two kings and at lelephone calls of inquiry began, already discovered that there supplementary grant all of moric Orchestra and the main

As an

Only Sotting

annexe

They Listen To

People's

and

the English provincial

at Provincial music clubs House, societies also benefit from the

Arts

Council and the Council Itself provides nearly 400 com certe a year in smaller places In the United Kingdom, well as sending acting comTM panies to theatreless towns and villages.

Other

Worries

By PHYLLIS DAVIS

been

There have probably few men of letters about whom critics have disagreed so vio- lently as James Boswell who wrote the "Life of Samuel Johnson," one of the

10 Was

greatest language.

that

4

books in the English Most people aro agreed Boswell

egregious Hittle coxcomb,

and certainly in all his writings he revealed himself as such; and in the great "Life" he is constantly at pains to show himself at disadvantage in order to exalt and magnity the manive and overpowering hero of his book. Now did Boswell thus belittle. or was. himself unconsciously

of a piercing it the outcome astuleness and

obsolute Fenius for salesmanship?

the only hotel ever ranking least one pretender, the In- official residence of funte Don Juan of Spain. the King and Queen of Den- Ever since Queen Victoria mark and King Haakon of boarded her guests there, Norway.

four generations of royalty | have used it as an to Buckingham Palace. In fact, the royalties' personal When Winston Churchill visiting books are kept on left No. 10, Downing Street, a special table just inside gilt-edged he stayed overnight at the entrance a Claridge's and entertained volume for King Peter of his entire ex-Cabinet to Yugoslavia, one in royal dinner. When Queen blue leather for Queen Ena Juliana, wished to stage a of Spain, separate books N this unquiet age one the C.A.B. New recruits, what wealth, and education and train- to the Bureaux tions, are required to undergo parents take our bound in blue and in claret would think most people ever their previous qualifica ing. Quite frequently troubled

of return

troubles banquet for

have enough

a period of training, not only in their indecision on a career for King and

without volun- the technique Queen, for the King and Queen of

their own own

of sympathetic their children. The experts are teering for the job of listen. Interviewing, but also to acquire able to explain opportunities in Claridge's was the only pos- Rumania. sible setting.

Through the swing doors ing to those of other people the knowledge about the services training for all manner of oc-

on which a Bureau must be pre- cupations. As it happened, Queen flow a constant stream of and then seeking to solve pared to give information and

Often, too, they are asked to advise on hobbles, or facilities her diplomats anxious to sign them. Yet some thousands advice. Juliana shipped over

mark of of public spirited men and

The leadership is regarded as for sports in a locality, and they own gold and silver plate their names as a

of the women in small towns and of first importance, and in large are also frequently consulted by to set up a her own respect. from Holland, Sevres china and 3,000 royalties are exiled today, cities throughout Britain towns this is usually undertaken people wishing frozen roses, but Claridge's but it is diplomatic to play spend a large proportion of by a trained soclal-worker, and business in the neighbourhood. their time helping their fel- in other cases by a person chosen For example, a man desiring to

That is the question critics for qualities of responsibility set up a bicycle repair could have obliged. After safe.

low citizens to understand and experience in public work.

over for two locally will ask for details of the have wrangled and overcome the problems

competition existing; whether centuries. Dr. Johnson was co another such business would be doubt a great man; but bow of their daily lives.

justified, if the rent asked for much of his posthumous great- premises he has under considera-ness does he owe to the few- and is the Ing, sychophantic little person tion is reasonable,

who trotted round beside him, situation suitable for his trade.

carefully noting every word, THEY FIND OUT

gestire nied characteristic which would go to form Many other queries are con- great book and exalt Boswell's name as high as Johnson'a? · corned with eligibility for war Would Jolinson have been pensions; how to set up as an

how to great a man if it had not been amateur plg breeder;

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éach addition, They are the workers of the Citizens' Advice Bureaux ser works in collaboration with a vice which came into being in panel of voluntary experts, such 1036 and developed during as an income tax expert, an World War II into a vast and insurance manager, a chartered valuable instrument of aid and accountant, a house agent and a doctor, as well as with the guidance.

various specialist social workers Although many of the prob- available in the locality.

which By Cyril Ray

lems

Britain's beset

The scene in a Bureau, on any apply for maternity and child for Boswell? largely dis- people then have

Now

"Boowell's. appears negligence, persed, the humane and worthy day of the week in any part of welfare allowances; what to do

about a

dimcult child. The MOSCOW. sees this

London Journal"

(Heinemann, on Britain's traditional trust in its Bureaux pride themselves 530 centres, voluntary organisations,

in 21 shlWings)

which goes. Today, in

the Over

on for THE newspapers of Mos- and, "despite her relations with work done by the Bureaux still the country, is a justification To devote an enviable him, could not and did not food manned by voluntary

Scoleman describes with an young I never being at door a bright blue sign

is a

answer. If do not know

they 5,000 advisors act as

the most disarming frankness owl. illustrated by a benign of amount

space

to an honest and principled Kom-interpreters between

O on the spot, they find out, for Govern symbol of wisdom.

first two Wherever they have a strong realisation his life during his

(1762-3) years in London criticism, and the Evening somol member she reports him

to the Komsomol committee, and ment departments and the or-

maintain the Moscow gave two columns Sergel is put on trial before his dinary citizen, as well as dealing possible, there is a room apart of the need to

with all manner of personal and from main office where shy or publio's trust by turning nobody diary which ends after his first meeting with Dr Johnson. the other day to its review comrades."

distressed visitors may tell their domestic problems.

away unsatisfied.

There papers were found some troubles in private. of a story by a young writer

The scope of their work,

time ago in houses in Scotland His comrades sentence him in the magazine "October."

Taking their

and Ireland and transferred to turm of duty, which only five years ago it was which varles according to their thought would have to end with the United States, whence they It singled out this story for to be denounced in the factory

own commitments, from a few the war, may be judged by the have recently been rocovered. praise because although newspaper of the steel mill as

a squanderer of state property.

The Bureaux are part of a hours two or three days a week, 1.404,000 questions which were They chow Borwell to be "much seems familiar-the

national voluntary service whose to a full working day every day, dealt with in 12 months.

The expert diarist As well as steel ordinary people of a

National

absolutely body is the "Indeed, who could forgive parent mill and a familiar roman- brigadier Serget his un-Kom- Council of Social Service. Apart may be a retired judge or bar- success of the Citizens Advice expert biographer:

rister, school teachers, retired Bureaux rises directly from the unreticent, alarmingly confiden

observant of At a time from voluntary contributions, civil servants, businessmen, Girl most worthy of human aspira- tial and acutely tic situation"-nevertheless somol behaviour? "you are scized by the vital when the factory was aghting they are maintained largely by Guide or Boy Scou officers, ions--to be "good neighbours." the life of his timeo.

financial grants from local clergymen for economy of raw material.

or former local and lively reality: the tense he threw into the waste bin 18 authorities, but in every caze council officials,

they remain independent of struggle of steel-men for 4 kg. of ferromanganese.”

political or other blas. high quality of steel and

Some Sergel could not, indeed, for- their desire to do

Housing problems predominate, thing so that the Mother give himself for this waste of situated in imposing town halls;

false state property, but "his

others in unpretentious, barely 300,750 queries on this subject land may obtain it before self-esteem and incorrect con- furnished halls in small country dealt with by the Bureaux In

ception of social duty" force towns, time."

but everywhere the one year. How get homes, how him to

quarrel with the girl quality of ady

advice

in Ovalable is to get rents reduced, how to get Every Bureau repairs done by reluctant land- The hero of this story in the

been over between the two of

conferences lords, the necessary procedure magazine "October" is Sergel, them had it not been for "the brigadier of a Komsomol (that tactful and attentive attitude" arranged by the National Council for permits to build or add to

Social Service and through

these and existing houses-all is, a Soviet Youth) brigade in of the Party organiser of the travelling officers, is kept sup- many other related queries are the steel mill, who "dreams of steel mill, who helps Sergel to piled with the latest informa- dealt with. The Citizens' Advice overtaking the output of the equal the amelting record of

on legislation and law as Bureaux have the busiest skilled worker Bugleyov' and the famous worker Bugleyev-they affect the citizen, and with telephones in Britain, for it is who falls in love with a girl and, by so doing, to regain the the citizen's rights. A special their job to know whom worker named Natasha "and love of the girl worker Natasha.

and quickly, staff at London headquarters is consult, was happy that they had such

always busy compiling clear difficult problems, a pure and exciting love."

"The story nuccessfully con- precis on current topics which

Family. and personal, Veys," anys the critic in

the are sent to all Bureaux.

matrimonial and legal questions But one day the hero, Sergei, Evening Moscow, "the atmos-

However well-meaning a are all high on the list of a piece of metal phere of herole mill labour, Its tripped over

brought to the and "quickly threw the plece poetry, and the spiritual great- volunteer for the service may worries Into the waste bin."

neas and beauty of the Soviet be, he or she is not cagerly ac- sympathetic cars of the Bureaux people....they do everything to cepted. Busybodies and kindly advisers. They also get a large our Communist to-intentioned but muddle-headed proportion of queries on travel,

workers are not welcomed by emigration

every-

Natasha. All might well have worker,

The girl worker Natasha, on hasten duty at the Komsomol post, morrow."

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