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GEORGE CAMPEY drops in for

a Mild and Vision at—

THE TV ARMS

• Will America's craze for television in bars spread to Britain? HOW will it affect social behaviour?

Mr

The Queen who smiles and

never complains

By SIDNEY RODIN

UEEN ELIZABETH constantly showing compassion was 51 last Saturday, for unfortunates personal, wilds

up.

the

от

malda

The Queen hushed woman. You may say she to drink. still looks much young woman's treatment in a home. matter, paid for the

than her age, yet never per- and supported her entirely haps has sho undergone until she died many years later.

The

Queen is not keen such strain as during the

games, but she is a good fisher- past months.

woman, often wading in the It is a dual strain caused by stream with her rod.

m- anxloty over the King's

The Queen has proyed an health, and by the heavier ideal Wife for the King. In burden of duties shouldered by temperament they are opposite. hier in Festival Year to make He is highly strung and inclined She up for the King's absence from to become over-anxious. public life.

is calm, reassuring.

Sho has deliberately set out is well known that the to do all the things he would Queen encouraged the King in be doing, for she knows this

is the surest way to lessen hla worries.

his battle to overcome his slam- mer. It is not so well known that she persevered with him to

The Queen was a sturdy Scots get hira to control his once con- tass, but doctors do not regard

her as exceptionally strong,

Last week I spoke to many.

people who know her Well,

ann who, though

of

siderable temper.

LIVELY PERSON

With their help have put to- The Queen can never under- gether an accurate picture of stand those who criticise Prin ihla woman

not coss Morgarel's love of plea- the blood royal, has occupied, cure. The Queen herself was the throne alace 1037 with a lively and fond of dancing as a gentle dignity and exceptional girl-she is still extraordinarily intelligence rarely surpassed by light on her feet in a Scottish "Mar- reel-and her any consort of a king.

Views: The secret of her smile is her garet does a job of work. As

and love understanding

of long as she does it

it well she is to her fun." people.

ometimes there may be

She

NEVER BORED

mild reproof such as: "You look

A

is never bored in her a bit tired, Margaret. I sup round of office because it de- pose it's because you have had lights

her to meet people in two or three late nights this every walk of life.

week."

But the Queen. is never cen- sorious, never interfering.

A

She believes she Is above fashion. She chooses her dress to suggest majesty, and, on state occasions, as a background to the magnificent jewellery she must west.

NO DIET

Her upbringing accounts for this. With ten children to rear, the Earl of Strathmore, her

Queen Elizabeth's mind is father, neither had the money extremely lucid about dress. nor the inclination to provide She was never interested in for them lavishly in their youth. clothes as young woman. Thus the Queen as the teen Since ascending the throne she age Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has declared: "I have no desire knew what it was to be short of to be a leader of fashion." money, and many Umes queued for the gallery at London thea- tres because she could afford no other scat. went a little further. "Watching Sugar Ray Robinson-Randolph |

Her loyalty

to her husband the television," he said, "ca- Turpin fight brought a big courages me to have the extru attendance of regulare. Unfor- knows no barrler. At the start one." Support also came from tunately, the film was not abown of the last war when she was

asked if

If she was going to Ron Edwards and Mr until closing time. There were evacuate the Princesses over-

• George Campey, TV Reporter, has spent an william Munser.

The Queen has resisted all "Television then 20 people in the bar. Mr seas, the Queen answered: "The evening in the "look-and-swallow" parlour of a keeps us here longer. Where we Perez (a, war-time constable) King will not leave. The Prin- attempts to change her hair the local police cesses could not go without me, style. For at least 20 years she London public-house. Here is his report:

would normally have two telephoned three pints we find we can get station and asked for permission and, of course, I shall never has preferred it softly waved,

parted in the

Onco to allow them to play. Permis leave the

This Queen with the vivid again, she belleves it suits a London. not install them. The bar-sets through five or six." WAS seated in the that exist are owned by the But Mr James Bodell, who sion was given. Mr Perez was blue eyes is a very charming queen. Moreover, it is the colf- a hospital equipment not able to serve drinks. But person. Her kindness is such fure best able to support a tiara saloon bar when the landlords who can look-in and

Alesh- She applies her own for people who fail ker, and is first regular customer entertain their customers at the business, was a dissentient," he dispensed as he says, a lot of that she seeks to make excuses or a crown.

used to come and watch boxing good will.

rose lip- toned powder, deep of the evening, a tall, lean same time,

here and got so interested that

only stick, and rouge, and man in a painter's overall, Mr Perez is in a good position instead of having five or six

before a special function does I would have only

a Bond Street beautician call Sole Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD. | strode in, picked up a pint to answer some of the questions light ales

at the Palace to do her make. which he seemed to have raised by pub-TV. He has stood two. Everything has to stop for

four years.

TV. Even drinking."

up. ordered by thought trans- behind the bar for ference, and said briefly: and for three of those he has "What's on Lonight, Bert?" been showing television with the

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TT must be reported that Mr The place was the Two His is the only house in the Bodell now has a television Brewers in White Cross district with TV. The set stands set of his own. That night-he Street, Finsbury, where the in the saloon bar, which means had deserted it to have a drink. host, Mr Bertram Perez, 36, that those who want to look-In The Two Brewers set was on as keeps a television set for the have to pay the extra d, or id, usual. But Mr Bodell was not delectation of his customers, for the drinks. For people in watching. Nor were tour others They stood in a knot away from and Mr Ben Turner, the the public bar there is reflected out of the 12 people in the bar. painter, was providing us entertainment. They can watch the set talking, I think, about with an interesting sociolo- the screen through the mirror nationalisation. gical point, Will television which runs along the back of in pubs change the pattern the bar. of behaviour?"

Sunday interval-

THE set, atted with a magni; read or write.lic-house she

'Hitler's Own' Run Tours To Cassino.

10

and find-appetite.

Many say that the Queen looks slimmer these days. she does, it is through no cruze to slim. Only once, before her Canadian tour in. 1939, did she attempt to follow diut sheet. From DENIS MARTIN

But the Queen has a good When she found

·BRUNSWICK fatherless children,

ishes she liked, sha aban- ficers of "Hitler's Own" ing work for unemployed and dieting deprived her of the

doned It. Green Devil paratroops wounded- is largely a cornou-

flage.

Most people have noticed that Charles appears to adore "Most of ally they say, "we Prince Ch are arranging August holi- day excursions to the Italian want to restore the honour of his grandmother. It is true, and him, Charles was

remalus her first and

ber as Mr Perez ex monastery of Monte Cassino. the German soldier, to release she For some,

resistance our great leaders in Allied war favourite grandchild. Friends say Their fanatical plains, television is no longer a novelty. For others the fascina- there in 1944 delayed the Bri- crimes zools, and to restore the it is because the Queen always

Fatherland,"

longed for a son herself. Ton Ungers. There is the case tish and American advance to

The Green Dovil network No one has ever heard the of the woman of 76 who cannot Rome for months,

No one has already boasts some 20,000 Queen complain.

than: Here was Mr Turner ask-

Each morning as

scarred The central Green Devil or members the

hard heard her say more about the evening'sner, is switched on for all ing

she passes the

is uiso publishing core of the toughest units la There seems a lot to do today." television programme before programmes on week-days, on asks Mr Perez what has become canisation

of picture the Wehrmacht, even sitting down. Did that Saturdays and Sundays it is the stock question: "What's on tens of thousands

accommodate the tonight?"

for. ght? Mr Perez tells her postcards

circulation mean Mr Turner was at. removed to

the provise the ilme of the best programme. troughout Germany, extra crowd-with tracted by the beer or the that if customers want to see a She arrives at that time, takes

The cards show Green Devlis particular programme they can a chair squarely in front of the TV show?

do so. If business is slack the set and sees the evening through. In action with fleets of Luft- drinkers watch the shows from In that time she drinks six waffe bombers overhead; Green: their stools round the bar, but atouts.

Devils fighting in ruined.streets; there is "anything special"

match) Mr. The male viewer-drinkers of Green Devils reseuing wounded. chairs in rows the Two Brewers like televised comrades in snow.

And from Northern Germany said. Then he looked at me so that everybody gets a good sporting events, The relay of a

ericket match

boxing can

any ex-Green Dovil can order case, closely. "I used to drink beer view.

mean bigger business for Mra silver tiepin, cigarette before television

ant I The main question involved in Perez. When the Oval Test lighter or cuff-links emblazoned viewing Match was televised, clerki and with the divisional sign of the don't think television is going to pub-TV is, whether

three-pronged stop me now."!

restricts drinking. I asked Mr workmen who do not normally Devil with

Brewers to look-in over their But what of other customers? Perez. "I have heard it said, use the pub raced to the Two peor.

the U.S.A. but that does not happen here, lunch. They took their own Will Britain follow

know sandwiches. But they bought

beer from Mr Perez

Landlord's choice

MR TURNER had a prompt (such as a boxing

"The beer," he Perez arranges

answer.

came

in turning its bars into look- he says. "My customers and-swallow parlours? If so how much they have to spend what will be the effect on the and they opend it, television or not. Even In the middle of an traditional ways of drinkers?

interesting play they will not There are no statistics on the forget to order." number of London public-houses. This was confirmed by Mr with television sets, Brewers do Turner. In fact, Mir Turner more popular.

QUIN · AMERICA |

OX

Police say yes OXING what little there is of it on television even The film of the

IT SETS THE BEER SALES SOARING

from Frederick Cook

NEW YORK,

ID United States ""bars, TV Kas koopme algust as indispensable så hver

in all big clims there, la hardly a bar without its " Email, do the colon watch 72 Erins|pally "#portan especially bozing, and, bas

„boxing la on. The sponsors

show roaming trustion of Feople have found that they

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round." FINDEN

Leterkion in your

The widely circulated ma-; gazine The Green Devils 15 carrying on a nation-wide ogita tion for the release of the major German war criminals.

Over a glass of beer in

a.43- Brunswick public-house year-old Green Dovil ex-major who fought in Creto said: "We are on our way.. We are Hot your enemies, but we will not fight for you until we are your equals and unt Hante11, Kesselring and all ove, im

great loaders are not

As he spoke, new vendors outside were selling German papers carrying full-length reports of the week-end rallies of Rommel's Afrika Korps, and of what promises to be the mhsa membership League of Ger man. ex-Boldiers."upda

Green Devil officers eny they h have set up cells of former air- borns, commanders in all the principal cities and provinces uf Western Germany Ame 2 Thor (virtunity admit that the purpose of them (organisation

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