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By David Temple Roberts WHAT
THIS
FESTIVAL
The King looks at a model of the South Bank ex-
hibition. Mr Gerald Barry's hand stretches past the top of the Skylon as he points towards Waterloo station.
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HE Festival people hope you have seen some of their adver- tisemente. But I will
try to tell you only the things that do not appear in the advertisements.
on.
EXACTLY IS BRITAIN?
OF
and urging ward ang but their
This
The Director of the Festival of Britain is Gerald Barry who
was once editor
The
The regular "Festivals" of British artistic life will all be concentratod iri the Big Festival's Ave month the
Shakespearo ford, the at Malvern,
season, st Strate
at
A
A
DAVİD TEMPLE ROBERTS has written what he pulls his candid guide to the Festival. He admite 10 is a critical commentary written in advance." It is bound to be unfair because he wrlies a guide packed with personal prejudice. But ho Must "If you so H to Britain you will be able to find pleasures to your taste
Shaw 500.900 the you can enjoy the countryside, educate yourself,
mixed bag look at the products of British business, o“make merry.
at Edinburgh (with Scottish You will
probably be irritated by much at this Festival atmosphere), the modern music that
show on the Suffolk coast 15 aimed at some other person than yourself. The art of Festival visiting will be to pick your way.
Aldeburgh, Bath's and Chelten The Festival of Britain, duc
ham's season for those in scorch frank guide may help. And if you cannot visit Britain, to open on May 3, WES
pr do not want to, he hopes you will understand from of the watering places of the thought of as a scheme for
ihese articles something about Bellain is 1051 that giving the morale of Britain a
Regency bucks. But frankly rarely reaches the headlincs. Four will be devoted to the Festivm in mot doing much boost and also giving the Br-
the Festival, itself, and a final article will give short
more for these annual events tish tourist industry an uplift,
notes on what to do when you are tired of the Festival.
but give them publicity, The idea originated in the mind of well-meaning people and 1a tees are gathering together to
badge, and an international re- being carried to fulfillment by a make a show or to brighten their
servations organisation for sents noble band of
"the
well-inten-
communal back gardens.
of the Nows and hotel rooms. tioned, the idealistic, the educa- Some of this talk from Festival Chronicle-the newspaper that Thirdly, the Festival is pro- tors and the amateur do-gooders. publicity officers demonstrates first suggested the scheme. But paring somewhere for the bored Behind them,
ow sin- there is no unified command of visitor to go in London the astute and hard-
The people who are the Festival-except Lord Iden is to reconstitute, in the working politician-Mr Herbert
Arts 20th running this Festival really be Festival himself.
the out-of-door Century, Morrison.
lleve that they are lifting the Council of Great Britain (which "pleasure gardens" - Ranelagh The Festival, with political face of Britain. That's what's Lond Keynes was so proud to and Vauxhall that were backing, Has been able to enlist o
so nice about them. Solemnly have developed), the Council oft merry feature of London · 200 the co-operation of the beat they have gathered together and Industrini Design,
tho years ago. It semi-
Is giving architects, the best organisers of
catalogued all
the efforts of Government body trying to visitor the benet of the Thames the
city, api arts, the best industrial villages
and the and
modemise industry),
(which runs through our designers and, it is hoped, the boroughs and cities. But when Trustees of the Victoria and but which we often forget). best restaurateurs available in you dip into this monster guide
Albert Museum (which was Britain.
to Much Muddlecombe it reveals founded following Prince The Festival people say that the kind of improvements most Albert's Great Exhibition of
the 1851), are all taking a loading Hundreds of boats will 'make the newspapers of Britain have parishes make each time misunderstood them. They say spring comes.
part in Festival organising. the Thames the waterway of that the Festival of Britain is not
Whatever they say about it, the Festival, and on the Bank only the modernistic agglomera-
an, interesting tion of aluminiura and gloss
the Festival of Britain seems to of the Thamed buildings to be seen across
amount to the following achieve mile, or so, upriver from the t picked By chance
On ments.
Dome of Dimavery will be these First there is a very river from their own offices
while looking
for Welwyn,
email Exhibition on the "South Festival Gardens, They will be which
to the Savoy Wallingford. are next
Welwyn is Bank" of the Thames. The
sort of Tivoli, and a brand of Hotel. It is something all over village in the well-to-do belt in Dome of Discovery, a
a mushroom Coney Island mixed with the countryside, they say. In
am the outer suburbs of North Lon of aluminium, the Skylon, a ver- and an easy in Englich humour. every village this Festival, I am don. Its effort for the Festival
stival ical 300 ft, floodlit spar of There will be a theatre, a pool. told, means what is being done
roller-coaster, a entirely as fol- me and in 1951 in that village. It is exactly
and back" all this.
Hall, numerable Concert restaurants, a (oue in each ward). To provide rest
And to pavilions and barns, crowded on tasting the national drinks. receptacles for litter. plant twelve
Tose
trees in a fair-ground's plot of
The Tutional habit of queueing land, Posed churchyard." The closed
the to infost It is minute by the standards will be churchyard is an
an excellent sym- of the International Exhibitions Festival. I suggest to all visitors crural England. bol of
of Chicago, New York, or Paris that they should never line up behind half a dozen English-
Pass on
cunning
Hours In Sir Laurence
the
is
downs,
Four Seats
(a
Queue Habit
fun-fair
En-
for
nothing to do with London, they lows: To erect four park sent metal, the endar to the th (closed on Sundays), and
say eagerly; all over the small wwns of Britain little commit
Life
The
Dunne
By John
Clarke
MICTL
sure
gardens
- Д
Herbert
ert Morrison Was once called "King of London," when he was Chairman of the London County Council, and he is the
he wants without waiting. cockney in Attlee's Government.
It will show off only British Such
the Festival of When ho governed the LCC he products carefully picked by Britain! We are not celebrating
the Council of Industrial Design, anything. We expect to built Waterloo Bridge-and took some battling
and embody some witty and celebrated. Britain expects its of slump and coomy, ingenious propaganda for British visitors to bring an air of days On the other side of the achievement in discovery, co-riment with them. All the bridge he wanted to clear away the alum streets the wharves of the South
Extra Comfort operator can usunily get what
that In the
6q
mxr-
car gineering, and the arts. It is Festival offers is a demonstro-
well designed, miniaturo and
Bank
To Show Off
1950
and
of British manifestations between Westminster and St. 2 perfect example of that pollte tion of self-confidence that the British understatement that is are interesting in themselves. Pauls. But thot was in
the taken by foreigners as our moet we are open to visitors' prewar depression years. Ho
attractive if sometimes Irrita- trying to entertain them in our could not have his way.
ting, national characteristic.
modest style. Now the Festival is doing it
I think the South Bank will for him. Standing at the Strand be vastly overcrowded all the end of Waterloo Bridge our new summer and I recommend over- you
the to it Foreign Secretary will be able scos visitors
The Festival of Britain is not during as to look.
across the river this week, not at the week-ends a Festival "for. Britons only" os summer across the bridge he when all Britain will flock to a New York travel agent seems built-and
rye will London. On a Tuesday the tie to think. He said recently, "It's upstream his travel past his new Concert Hall, kets will cost ten ahillings cach, no use thinking the Festival of of four shillings-for Britain will keep Americans instead extra comfort the price will away. If they want to come to Britain they'll come just the probably be worth paying.
Second, the Festival of Britain same." means a concentration in the
As a nation we have summer season
oli the been ashamed to parade Our attractions of theatre and the consciences, but it has meant a arts that are usually spread bit of courage to parado our
LONDON, Apr. 18 won the MC and the Croix de before), and they were followed was by a man whose shouting of and Guerre with palms, and Wednesday
times mentioned in "Gerrotat my way, ol Thursday
mornings, three
was reckoned the Chief Metropolitan despatches. But soldiering has foreigners,"
left no visible marks upon him, constituting drunk and dla- Magistrate, Sir Laurence
He looks the part of a man of orderly. Rivers Dunne, arrives at
law and the son of one, as he is. Bow Street to sit on the Sir Laurence's father was a KC, Bench in Court No. 1.
Lord Festival
The Chief Magistrate Aned past the Dome of Discovery, to who died in 1947, leaving the this prisoner, who looked too that ugly monument of munici- residue of his £105,000 estate to tired ever to shout again, 20s, pat prowess County Hall, the home of the London County warning him, "That's just
the Council. He travels by threepenny his son.
sort of behaviour that might Tube from Knightsbridge to
have led to trouble," Covent Garden, unlike the prostitutes, who mostly ar- rive by taxi and in many cases arrange for the taxis to be held, meters ticking over, while their cases are heurd.
was As Chief Magistrate-he appointed in 1948, after 12 years -on-the Metropolitan-bench,- ond.
A street photographer-Anod service in Marylebone and Greenwich as well as Bow Street 20s, for obstruction occluded
The street enges, and like Sir Laurence receives £2,300 boxing crowd as the last pre- year, more by the odd £300 than the other three Bow Street liminary ends, the public gallery settled down for the moro magistrates.
serious charges
Besides taking his seat on the
Stole 5d..
There are three courts at Bench, he serves on committees Flow Street, two in daily use. of inquiry and commissions, has the third in reserve if pres- much paper work to get through,
THERE was the £130 sure of business becomes ten and once a month presides over
moetings of all his colleagues at broken-looking are discussed.
great; outside each of the two a crowd of the curious, who will, fill the public gal- leries, begins to queue 30-45 minutes before 10.30, the official time for opening.
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With Herbert Morrison guiding ugaout the London year. culture. 50 most properly.
The Opera ocason in London is the Festival it was bound to be always in the summerco English" Englishmen are damm-
ably
self-consclus tut the London-whatever inciding with the social season moment. The proper thing for the other members of Tival based on the Royal Courts and Londoners to asic one
in
the Bumter.
another
centred in
Court" have to say.
he Until be
But this Presentations. become Foreign
Secretary, the Shakespeare season, which at parties, "Where and you Festival, old man?" tho going for Herbert Morrison's official title usually develops
the and the proper answer is, be the Government was Lord autumn
autumn, will also crowded
"Well, I was thinking of letting London's President of the Council. Usual into ly the position is referred to in summer climate does not make my fint, but I suppose I'll stay. Parliament as simply "The Lord
London won't be worth living intolerable although Lon President." So it was only a there is no air-conditioned play in, all these visitors swarming small allp of the tongue when house in London. Unlike New over the place" Secretly, of are all longing to show off, this summer. the phrase, “wni
Tomorrow: A Quick Tour. Festival...?”
theatres
which court cases and decisions had been seen by a fellow citizen an M.P. began a question with Vorft, Paris or Rio de Janeiro course, we
the Lord the summer is not a closed
who
newsvendor's box of to rob a 5d. The case was gone into with 20 20 These meetings are held in Sir enormous pains: it lasted
witnesses ware Laurence's big first-floor room at minutes, four Bow Street, a room as neat and called, and Sir Laurence, scrib- tidy as its occupant who, when bling on his pad ("My arith he is not working, counts dishing, metic's not my best point and" shooting ard golf as histo the paperman-it doesn't recreations.
look as if yours 麺 much better") endeavoured to estab- lish
whether the money could
Ail Guilty
TE Kst that had been prepared for Sir Laurence yesterday morning contained 32 charges and three remands from the week before.
the charge being framed thusi
the
have been "missing." The case was found proved, and the man
in the dock seat to prison for three months,
An old gentleman who pleaded guilty to shoplifting followed him into the dock, and caying, "I'm very Dorty,
season for London theatres.
"The Professor' fights the underworld
From FREDERIck cook
Kefourverhos: 1. Helle for books but tasks
Ho
find NEW YORK. He has built his whole poll- KC's Son
political youSTES KEFAUVER, government bottle
and economic matters.. The first 12 cases involved must go to prison for a month, America's man agamat for cleaner government.
Sut be in no dull dog. After taking Yale how do ESTERDAY morning prostitution, which is not a crime, for the old man had done the crime and sworn enemy of os in 1927, he went home to Hoes a party, loves travelling Y
when Sir Laurence took Soliciting in the street to same thing once before, Sir Frankde Costello, Joe Adonis Chattanooga,
underking up acquaintances Temmesone and
with people i monts in trains the Bench at 10.84, there annoyance of passengers." Then Laurence disposed of that case. and the other colourful storted in practice as a local
and in the `atr. Insist on using the British Eleseignar candis for all were 38 spectators, of whom cases all the pleas were guilty
Fishing was a pansion with characters of the twilight solicitor. were disposed of at the rate of There followed an Irish
mountain only four were women-one 10-12 seconds each. In 11 cases
once the waller charged with loltering world, la-not at all the type Business, he mays now, is boat him
described os, having been '""'on streamna Renners00 BZE AMBIE a hatless girl, the others the fine was 40s. In the 12th, as with Intent to steal; he was die one might expect.
the thin alde.” He picked up America's best trout waters- middle-aged.
the defendant had only recently charged conditionally; a derk
About him there is no of eight dollars in the first month, but he has Httle time for it on the streets of Bow charged with, embezzling, who Street's bailiwick (A, B, C and E was remanded
the flamboyant, hectoring, was delighted when the baldings now, on ball, and a
xediacomenta.
“AN EVENING IN CATHAY" An Interpretation of Chinese Classical
DANCING
by
MISS AVERIL TONG
and hor Troupe, at
QUEEN'S COLLEGE April 24th, 8.30 p.m. under the patronage of H.E. Sir Alexander and Lady Grantham
FAREWELL PERFORMANCE
before:
American Tour!
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Hand painted Satin Decor-by-f*g* AGTAT
GEFFZOLLI
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day pritics have called “Brilliant "
been
tion
•
It-west not long, however, A and played a hard game
engo. Ho is big and rugged. before Kefauver TYDE
one at
They saw, as the Chief police divisions, taking in most boy charged with an Indecent † bustering, loud-tie District At- west to ‘21 dollars, in the text. Vir college he was n track star Magistrate took his seat, a of the West End), Sir Laurence offence, who was remanded to torney of Hollywood and Chi- man with a fine leonine exacted only 10s.
custody for a medical examina hend, keen blue eyes, rather grey complexion and an innate courtesy apparent in his every gesture, word and movement.
There followed into the dock'
were charged with obstructing the footway outside a public-hours In the Piccadilly Cirous area,
two groups of girls who
headline-hunting swash-
tor.
Kofauver red-haired
But in this 17-year-old Senator the South's more successful at of football, Now als absprbing. from the backwoods country foxeys and the money flowed hobby is carpentry,
recent "My most mucConfudi No Answer
of Texmesece there is more of. ii.
project," he
Boyn wing to fix the earnest profémor: than of Inskie five yours his income a new door on my daughter'e;
- who “several times” the £5,000
playhouse" THERE was no answer, to the the
a year ho gote, now as a Sena
Refauver has two daughter, first remand, and a police buckler.
Brod
eight and three, and officer gave evidence that the His quiet voice flows smooth- He had no political ambitions four-year-old son. He wore a dark-grey pin- "That bar is very attractive to
wasty, without rim. His accent is until he turned his mind to a Mas striped suit, black-and-white American soldiers, isn't it?" Sir an expected, to appear
a pleasant soft Boutherns drowi: minor local reform and extract- and attractive, was born and striped shirt, with a white Laurence inquired, surveying the dead; the second remand was a part-heard charge of stealing, collar and gold cuff-links, quartet over his spectacles, and the prisoner was placed on But some of those who have edm promises from all the brought up Clasgow, where
The police-officer said it was, the-
faced him and his Sonate Crime Candidates that, if elected, they her father, though an Amat-
would back it. Those who was con owned shipyard. and instead of the Old girls sandled rather sheepishly, probation, the third case in
Torvestigating Commilice Isve at the poll promptly "forgot" Ketauver mimāla Etoninn tie ho often wears, and Sir Laurence in a paternal volved irregularilles In
y that they mai-tiniai a black-and-white patterned volco, adjured them, Do be purchase of gold, and was die learned that there le punch their commitment
behink? that › difdent · anile,“ have," and fined them 10s. med.
"Kefastver, decided that day ho, data when bo toàn bị ono. As the first defendant apiece
mantrap in those commingly could trust nobody in politics, ploco of a friend who hai
and at the next election put bis; caught a
colde was shown into the dock, ho
harnless questions.
own name up for the Ton Man Reaver. Linn. put on a pair of horn-rim-
montrer her Boots, accesst. med spectacles half-way
But he and say "the mo down his nose,
The Drunks
the
At. 12-12 8k Laurence Drume
· folded his spectacles; ami rose;; the morningʻa work wis over, and the public gallery Bod out dramics, without the to conduct 1
"postamostems, on RIDINGE 10 FRKA, then Kura-k, yery cuso heard thestro Jour (serosakalinas planner, ire poura discussing
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