1951-04-24 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951.

This is the second article in a series of

SHEWAN. TOMES five on the Festival of Britain, which

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into the future, the Telecinema will present to its audiences a Lastly, as night is falling, 1 new kind of film sound track, recommend a nightmare in the using the latest magnetic medium "Telecinema." I hesitate to and causing the sound to issue have their duo-but describe it in any other words at will from any part of the

A QUICK TOUR ROUND THE SOUTH BANK

By DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS

Outside In

I predict more at- but those of officialdom which in screen or from the back er ceiling tention will be paid this case betrays an optimism of the auditorium.

to Englishmen's obviously inherited from Prince eccentricities.

"Coupled with this sound in Albert. If it's now, it's better; talkies are better than movies; space will be a picture in space' three-dimensional movie television than radio; so lot us Have "hearies," so that soon we which will appear to the specta- will have "smellies."

tor to reach out from the screen over the heads of the audienco

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Some of the most fantastic minds in Britain have searched out serious inventions made for Iudicrous purposes-but none The Council of Industrial De- surely will equal the "alarum

We are told, of the telecinema: in front and also stretch back the sunshine (it's the Thames; (Mr Bailey was a

1851 Great "For the first time big-screen behind the plarie of the screen

into the far distance" included in military engineer who cut down stopped raining, dear") is the sign writes, "The 1851 Exhibi- bed" shown at the

...The audience will be pro- bridge-building with a prefabri- "Skylon". Some Festival word- tion was international and un- Exhibition which could be sat in television will be ented building.

programme). maker picked this combination Nolice the view, upstream to of Pylon and Skyscraper to de- selective; 1951 will be entirely advance to objeet the sleeper on the regular cinema programme,

It was added that a cold bath coch performance a sense of up- glasses"

actuality-whot Big Ben, and downstream to St scribe the South Bank's piece of British and will show nothing the floor in a standing position" bringing to movie audiences at vided with specially designed

is (300 that does not do the country and could be placed in the appro- to-the-moment Paula, (this is a much clearer brilliant nonsense. It view

for its British industry the highest de- priate spot. They were hardy is going on in other paris of the of St Paul's, thanks to ft high, and very thin Goering's town clearing pro- height. At night it will be lit gree of credit..." So now you gramme).

from Inside the bulbs will be know. seen through tiny holes, and it will seem to hang in the sky.

When you arrive on the South Bank, ("but perhaps you came by water-bus, madam!"), you will be right inside the serious minded hard-core of the Festi- val. Solemnly, this aren above the bridge is called the "Land of Britoin"—or the "Up-stream Sequence".

Actually

wards.

Goodnight!

It is balanced on a This superior tone of voice Hulle pivot. It serves no pur- towards the 1851 Exhibition in the architectural Hyde Park, organised by Prince pose except

true fother and fancy of carrying your eye up- Albert-the

grandparent of all exhibilians- Is common enough around "Festival Court," but hardly justified. It you come to Britain for the Festival, I recommend that you buy the commemora- tive album of the 1851 "Great Exhibition" just brought out by is seriously exercising the. reported

THE ABBEY IS HARD-UP, TOO

That, of course, is noble in It self in this Twentieth Century when we can scarcely afford to build even a church with a little

If it is raining, the best thing height in the nave. So the Sky-

is to take the children straight lon is the Gothic roof of this

It

to the Dome of Discovery and Festival. Please don't sneer at It probably will be raining.

all quite safe, I assure you, it; I think it is a merry joke. though over there is a high-

voltage electrical apparatus mak-

to

comer. It is about as you will get to warfare.

the

Time For Tea

THE rising cost of living. By Hugh Cleland 200 to £1;-

which

drives the housewife to despair,

400) to the

variously OS from

13 vergers,

the clerk of

works staff

of 30-40 and

the Victoria and Albert Museum minds of the men respon- £103,000 to £180,000, and this and published by the Stationery sible for the upkeep of Bri- sum was invested. Office, the official Government tain's great cathedral printers (price: 8 shillings).

Fantastic

ing million dollar sparits-sorry, million valt sparks. They are

Nothing to equal that Great For a British visitor It will

Exhibition's grandeur will be at Investigate storting structure of the atom in that certainly be time for tea now. tained in 1951. From the Crystal near as But hardy foreigners might try Palace itself, to the collection of the Dutch Barn in the far corn- stuffed animals on Fage 157 it i er devoted to The Country. It delightful. The Queen found the are is easy to laugh at this, too. I stuffed frogs (one is shaving the But if your children

other), "absolutely marvellous" British imagine sturdy brought up on Superman they can will not let you miss the radar yokels with their trousers tied up signals to the moon and back.with straw to keep them out of This is really quite a simple the mud, stamping about among

To visitors from the East, I gadget. On the top of the

a London land- the specimen herds of livestock.

commend Illustration and con- "shot-tower,"

temporary comment on India, mark which the Festival has

page 67. To lovers of the arti repainted rather than knock it down, is an anti-aircraft gun ("sorry, madam, there Is no I commend some illustrations of glorious in their sculptures mounting with a. radar

modesty especially an Ameri- instead of a gun pointed at the uprooted from the Kent country- can contribution entitled "The moon. Every now and again; it side and carried profanely pust will

plopa Ittle the tramcars of South London. Chained Slave." Today's poor go off with

will electrical plop, which you

They will have their fruit Festival connot rival these. sce on a cathode-ray tube in the heavy on them, all for the de- Discovery. Need light of the town-bound con-

But amusement for the cynical

Doine of

serial

It

Somewhere on the first floor,

elevator") will be fruit trees

churches.

Large source

cleaners (0), Only ten of them arc clergymen,

The choir school

which pro-

and

vides educa-

in

tion at a

source 33

third of

cost price for scholars whose

of revenue is the fees paid by visitors for looking at the Chapels Royal in the Abbey, which were estima- St Paul's Cathedral, it has ted before the war to produce a year; collec- been revealed, will have to £3,000-25,000

liftic, yield very hand, sell investments to meet its tions at services, on the other

this from money financial commitments; at Westminster Abbey-which shared on a roughly afty-nity in recent years has been basis with a number of chari- in occasions bring ties. State able to make ends meet -

Ince for those who cannot-bas there is talk of an appeal for fees, and though these barely parents enn pay and provides it funds in the not too distant from Lemporary closing of the 38 boys in it. The Abbey choir Abbey, they usually mean that as B whole, though slightly future.

bigger crowds of sightseers are attracted in the following weeks, smaller than that of St Paul's 22 boys against Abbey, Westminster

the A quarter of a million people (12 men God Collegiate Church of St. Peter, paid £15,000 to poe the Corona 18 men and 30) and two or

ganists, with shares

George's tion setting in the Abbey. the designu- tion "Royal Peculiar," is extra. Chapel, Windsor, provincial, extra-diocesan and under the personal jurisdiction

St.

cover the

expenses involved

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maintaining of the King, who He Vicitor. fabric today is reckonci as being five times what it was in

Cast

of

the

represents a

comanitment.

heavy

Like other organisations, tho

Abbey is hoping some good may 魏 from Festival

to aceruo

tell you how fast light goes, of noisseur of cherries and fresh is still to be had on the South One of the peculiarities about 1888, and craftsmen are becom- the-distance to the moon and English apples. ("Pity the pour Bank. "Downstream" from the its Anances is that they are not ing more and more difficult to Visitors, "Were it not for some

back? plop

seconds..

I understand the

back In 8 Lew comes

little

Fresher Fun

"Sexamining

taln

Uke an

18

find.

hopes from that," they Enty, we It must hurt them serious Instruction trees, how

have made public; the poverty-

"the situation would be well, being trundled in a horrid truck been

another stricken parish church may pub-

There are 120 people on the

less promising." called the "People ligh the sad statement "of ite like that").

Abbey staff. They range from of Britain." The idea is touffaire in the magazine once the Dean (£8,000 a year), (World Copyright Reserva The "Power and Production" portray what the people of Bri- your and thereby perhaps attract through four Canons Residen- London Express Service.)

help have done to their country

from well-wishers. St. Just to make the fun fresher, pavillon will be more

industrial exhibition. But the and what it has done to them. Paul's Cathedral admits its out-

part called the this echo is not coming back to Festival people keep on crying will be light entertainment-one Westminster London but to somewhere in

can of beach parade with yachts, pler Exhibitions are will it on the screen.

see enthusiastic amateurs keen on not rent space.

show of bathing costumes watching little radio plops will picked for merit, If you want amusements, and a mannequin be straining their carn for it in to order machinery or little Americi. All this is designed to plastic pigs to play with in pour the be great fun and proves nothing. bath, then you can ask at

counter for the "1951 Stocklist"

£30,000 a year. Abbey's accounte

the West of Erigland-still you aloud that this is not an indus- bit of it, a port, the other a kind are "a Chapter secret."

trial fair. Manufacturers Also

Responsible for them to the

16 Chapter

the Receiver- But if you are more inquisi-General, Canon Adam Fox, tive, try finding out what the former Professor of Poetry at It indicates what is on show. British think of their own Oxford. while the lay expert ex- who makes it and also sta far character! It is all in a pavi- Mr T. Hebron, Registrar and This is not a scientific

that could be lon called the Lion and the Chief Accountant. The accounts things hibition in any exhausting sense. more

the 27 acres of Unicorn" All the solemn vir- Lare audited annually' by an But, in the words of the Festival squeezed into

tues of civic responsibility will People, it is to make clear "how South Bank.

$1 from the

eminent accountant known

Aud

the Auditor-General, who has as a perquisite of his omee a stall in the Abbey choir. But the balanco-sheet is not pub-i lished

at

The

But for an Act of Parliament of 63 years ago, tho Abbey might be rich indeed, with on annual income from property up and down the country of £250,000 • a year ("and that would have been an em- really barrassment." they say Abbey). By the Westminster Abbey Act, 1888, however, the property was currendered to the Ecclesiastical Commis- sloners in return for a fixed Income of £20,000 year. Though it may have socmed adequate then this bears little relation to expenditure today.

•Long before, Henry VIII did much the same as the Ecclésias- tical Commissioners, He conils. cated Abbey revenue of £4,000,

year and gavo inatend Income of £600, and food to the capiter value of a low thousand pound.

haust of the Ab

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