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HOW that £140

carpet split

a £20,000 team

by WILLIAM GRACE

over

B

3. Carte, who had lost thou

cands on "The Yeomen of the Guard" in America, was legally THAT quarrel

carpet-which wrecked i to charge his partners included carpets just as much the Cilbert-and-Sullivan fer upkeep of the theatre. That partnership at the height as new electric bulbs (the Savoy of its success becomes was the first theatre in London

lighted by electricity). easier to understand.

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

-New York, Tuesday.

LL the past week

the messages have heen flowing into the British Embassy, the British Consulates, the Bri- tish information services, and the New York offices of The full story is told for the

the British newspapers. by Leslie Bally in Are time THE GILBERT AND SULLI-

So, while "The Gondollers" There have been con- VAN BOOK (Cassell, 42s). Pro-

and danced its gay cachucha odolences, tributes, and ex- duction of this lavish

faith and fascinding chronicle has been ever-delighted audiences during held up to include letters un 1890 (In the second quarter, the pressions of

They were takings were £20,000), Gllbart friendship, and good wishes

Issued a writ

sem r 70 years, found by Miss Bridget D'Oyly the Carte, granddaughter of

behind the old Savoy

man

operas.

He wanted all the secounts to he reopened for the whole of

the past 11 years partnership, The irascible Gilbert was so during which Carte had paid angry about the quarrel that him £90,000. he wrote: "After the withdrawal of "The Gondaliers, our unit- be will ed work heard in public no inore,"

That carpet nearly lel to

011

12

Landlun revivals of the operas and embargo on touring companies both England and abroad.

"The Mikado”

bert and Bullran

by modern Utopía,

the rest might never have been heard audiences. Now why?

for the future.

The United States mourns the death of the King. All wish Queen Americans Elizabeth I..a long and Came sried

prosperous' reign. team two rising young novelists, J.

It has been deeply mov. M. Barrie and Conan

Complete strangers Doyle, with Sullivan: ing. he rejea ed thele have dropped into the office scripts. Gilbert found and mumbled: “Just thought another composer

nother you'd like to know how much everybody admired Eventually, the your King," and "You are legal battle over, he fortunate to have such, a two men collaborated en wo more operas. wonderful young Queen." But the £7,200

has Lid,"

(but

Sullivan),

never If anyone doubted the cvor! been closeness of the United

Duke,"

feebles, Kingdom and the United perfo States these last sad days must have dispelled the

well, hardly

"The Grand revived. dispute Biely 14th, last, and the time of the AL

Sullivan were cred

123 Gilbert

aler and

£ 10.000 amances. making more than

The cach.

fashionable your

fleshy. When the pair met on the Sullivan, plump and

favourite

of the Savoy, taking a of stage

curtain-cau, Regalty, pent freely on enter- 21 anniversary

speaking taining racehorses, the casino, they

terms. They did not meet again, travel.

Why did the partnership en-

smcoth-tongued

Gilbert,

fall. deep-voiced,

not wero

on

built the Gurrick Theatre out of dure for & Jong? The two men

his profits.

could not get on,

Achi Gilbert despised Sulli van's pretensions as a serious Carte," their composer, envied his high living Richard D'Oyly partner, built the Savoy And

No, the partnership endured Palaeo Theatres, and the Savoy beenuse neither in could do Hotel, out of his share.

with the other-financially. Bad-lumpered Glbert started The fee Sullivan get for, a big

when concer, 300 guineas, was He exploded

in a night ut had much as he lost that Carie he heard Esper £4,500 on preparing "The Monte Carlo,

Cisauctiors," and that £300 of

the row.

and

20

doubt.

Most newspapers day devoted after day have almost their entire issues to the sombre news, to biogra- phies of the late King, the new Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the royal child- ren, the illustrious story of the Crown

GOOD FRIENDS

America Watches and Marvels

at the enduring strength and might of the Commonwealth

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke take part in scores of formal functions and dozens of informal meetings, I have been naked question after question.

news-

Queen of Canada, Austra ing the life story of Queen elizabeth under the te of lia, New Zealand, South Frem Libet to Queen." So is Africa; the Sovereign, of the leading Isolationist Colonies and Protectorates paper the New York Dally in Zanzibar and Pemba, of News.

There is a hardly a newspaper Malta and Hongkong, the Leeward and the Windward about Britain and the monarch- or magazine, whatever its views Islands; ruler of a fifth of ical system, which is not print- Ing tens of thousands of words as tribute, sometimes disguised the great globe itself."

The Americans realise as royal biography.

Also our good American coy- that Britain is not just the

arc Ains

Title nonplussed by United Kingdom, but that the promptness and even speed Britain is everywhore with which the Canadians pro- of the on the Alberta plains and claimed Queen Elizabeth Queen

oilfields, in the African of Canada, jungles, in the green pas me: You know, the U.S. and tures of New Zealand, in Canada are one and the same the great cities and the country really. You can't tell vast farms of Australia, in the difference,

Newsreel and television cameras have been brought into the office by crews from the major networks, and one has done one's best to tell a little of our heritage and tradition and give an accurate picture Queen and her husband.

has

The United States often shown that it is, a good and sincere friend of the British family of na- tions, but never more

than now.

In

SAD BUT PROUD

Americans have often said to

can. The

a thousand islands, and on Canadians can. The latest news 20, all seven seas;

4

Can't you?

from. Canada is that the country, not fond of being termed This is a sad time, but it is also Dominion, may decide to call itself the Kingdom of Canada, o proud one.

People here do not pretend to understand the mystic qualities NO COMPULSION of

more

the

than

and the Throne

Professor

Max

FOR a day or two there was

a slightly jarring note Sovereign,

Times

distinguished some of the dispatches Lerner throws up his hands and WHO says so? The New York

says: "One often wonders how

correspondent, P. J. of the British manage will little Ottawa from London and some

Mr

writes: sticks and Philip.

Philip a few

Is the editorials here.

and a monarchy stones and a bit of glue, and "Canada

She is an in- There were references to some swagger to keep an 'Em- not a republic.

dependent country, voluntarily the "once great" Empire pire together."

Ah, profesor, there is far and phrases such as "King

the Queen of the Realm.”

This devotion to the Crown George's reign marked the more than "sticks and stones, a

regardi end of an era of British bit of glue, and some swagger" and this high personal

there are love and loyalty. for. Queen Elizabeth 11, were power."

seen over and over again during British Crown was severed by the tour of Canada. But that was only at the the revolutionary war, but 婚 known here Ameri-

The American

bond to the

wing allegiance and loyalty to

I tell you that the death of the

beginning. Now the en- has not vanished. When the King and the succession of the

during might and strength news was

AMERICAN interest and Empire are realised and them to say: "The King of

That

The United Kingdom is go ing through a temporary finan-

of the Commonwealth and cans said: "The King is dead." Queen have shown the world the Commonwealth and It never would have occurred to Empire are stronger than ever. England is dead." curiosity have been in- marvelled over.

Today Americans

. Even our harshest critics take cial embarrassment, but Caneda. satiable. Because I had the

Queen on the role of courtiers. The was never wealthler, nor more that honour to report the royal reading.

onti - British powerful, nor was Australis, ner apoplectically reigns over Colonel McCormick, who owns South Africa, The sons havo blended in the best Englishtour of Canada and travelled Elizabeth

the royal route, seeing. 600,000,000 people, is the Chicago Tribune is publish- grown up and they stand be

sice their mother.

Money was the great peace- the affairs of the the maker in for

team whose mild-and-bitter

the was for new lobby staircase carpets

Savey Theatre.

来

You're making too much operatias ever written.

molicy out of my brains," he fumed in a volcanic interview.

with

A

"Very well, then, snapped Carte, "You write no more for the Savoy.".

Sullivan sided Why

the famous "carpet Carte in quarrel has always been mystery. The facts how emerge. 1. The carpet cost £140, not £500.

3. "The Gondollers" was ex- pensive because Gilbert ordered costumes and materials "blind." without getting estimates.

are

FINE CROP OF COMEDY IN

THE INDIAN ELECTION

New Delhi. INDIA'S first general election, history'a greatest experiment in democracy, yielded, along with party upsets and sur- prise, candidates' jubilation and chagrin, a fine crop of comedy.

With about half an elec- torate of 170,000,000 vot- ing. 95 percent of whom are illiterate, inevitably there were very many amusing misunderstandings, farcical incidents and comic situa- tions.

By ALAN HUMPHREYS

boat, or bicycle or other repre- ballot sented symbol there.

Against the background of the King's death and the coming to Le Throne of Queen Elizabeth everything else seems petty. and trivial.

II.

Here there has been the mam- moth rally in Madison Square

Garden for General Dwight Elsenhower.

thousand Eighteen people turned up it was a

and dizzy and gaudy occasion.

I went along to see for myself, and got crushed in the crowd, which included girls dressed as cowboys and men dressed as Indians. Almost every- officer: Red

body carried a fing or banner or wore an emblem.

Another woman voter for Nehru, learning he wasn't standing in her constituoney, boxes and exclaimed: said to the presiding "Blessed be all of you, my "Then let me vote for you." children."

There were similar eccentrl- A blind woman said she wanted to vote for camel, but would like

A septuagenarian who tore cities among male voters. One walked away with his to pat it first. The polling his paper into 12 pieces for all man officer held up the camel ballot the boxes smilingly explained he ballot because the paper looked box for her to feel, whereupon had promised his support to all: too good to he wasted in a she became very angry and "I have kept my word and box." loudly asked: "Where is the

displeased none," camel?" She could only be per- sunded to vote by being told the animal had gone to graze,

One aged rural vater took an in the inordinately long time booth. An official went inside and found him with the ballot box bearing the pitcher symbol in his arms, trying to drink from Omelaldom went fhio the the sit. He said he would only electoral vote if the pitcher contained country's gigantic adventure with serious qualms, wine.

They were darkly apprehensive

of possible disorders.

The principle of "Arst come

said a first served,"

peasant, Promises to canvassers were decilled for him. "I dropped u regarded seriously. An elderly papers in the boxes placed first man gave his vote to one of five in the row. Whose are those?" candidates, then. Instructed his four sons to vote for the rest: If five people ask me for a them favour I must oblige equally. That is justice," the father told a canvasser after- wards,

*

Clark Gable was there with Senator Cabot Lodge, chief or- raniser of the Eisenhower cant- and handsomer than

bagn Gable, Some in the crowd

shouted: "Clark Gable for Pre- sident." Gable grinned and the crowd roared.

AT A DISTANCE

Tie general's voice was heard o recordings ot his speeches made when he was president of Columbia Univer- drving, Berlin, the song A Cond (Gonds aro a Central writer, did a very good job, and Indian tribe) insisted that I suppose the rally could be con- the polling officer should siderjed Women went to the polls in toll Hilm whom to

Outalde the martial young man intend- surprisingly large numbers, In

for. Trepeatedly tell him

rebuked ing to vote for Congress (yoked some places they outnumbered

160 anical

Which said:

There were a fow ugly incidents. bulls), changed his mind when the men, One wotnan had her- and then would fhaver to-let neran n farm,ko

A

threats, intimidation, even small number of unhappy fatali ties, but against this giant back. ground of the elections these were remarkably zare.

.

Instead there was the vastly wider experience of whole con- stitueneles in rollicking laughter. Comedy for exceeded tragedy.

From all over the country, relieving the general tedium of straight. ropetitive election reports, came accounts of the fun that was enjoyed at the polling boothi

he saw the row of ballot boxes. self carried to the polling station inake

*5

to

influence not more

but what does Ike like?

town choice, he anally The popular appeal of. Eisen-

He put his paper in the lion box on a stretcher and dies a few went away shouting angrily:.""If

he "preferred Sullocks.“

minutes after voting.

For many of them--Indeed. for many men, 100-polling day was as good as a holiday. Thou- sands of women camo out of purdah for the first time in their

fe to cast their votes.

you don't know, how do you hower and the demand for him expect poor folle like us to re, treat: but you cannot run for President at long distance.

man cari. No man Know?"

drive here: to Not only votes went into the There is also a ballot boxes. In one was found nominate General MacArthur a petition to Nehru for food and for the Presidenty, but I don't

think it will get very far, ya da clothing

-There humorous exceptions to

Sometimes the very eriina:) nes the simplicity, of the symbols created sentimental The age-long, inferior position attachments for voters. They of women and their traditional the normal, somewhat drab, confused their own possessions, withdrawal from life outside procedure of voting, were how- they own way of life, with the their family sometimes caused over, extremely few compared The choice of candidate.

difficulties. Wives tended to to the total votes cast ketuse to

their general impression was that the disclosó Ono voter rode to the polling husbands naines and would Indians showes a remarkable The very arrangements made station in his own bullock cart only do so who cartain nobody degree of political maturity. because of widespread iteracy and expressed his wish to vote

could overhear. themselves provoked. mush for the candidates having bull

They know what they were They knew humour. The use of symbols to and cart as their symbols.

doing and why, designate candidates was perhapa

what they looked for in choosing the most fruitful source.

their candidate. There wero, innumerable examples of people going to great trouble in order to exercise their right.

*

Told he could only choose one, ho declined to vote, saying he loved his bulls and this · cart

equally.

One woman igorously refused to have the indelible mark put This inability to decide between was done to prevent impersona on her left index finger. (This candidates. was

frequent tion by those who had Already essurrence,

voted), Taking up a strongly

to reach

A cripple crawlod 21 milca his. polling station. Even wanted criminals contrived to voto, About 26 notorious outlaws managed to exercise their franchise. Jodhpur guising himself as a policemen, Division, One."

-dil zo by dis-

In camel-less South Indie, for vote between the two. Women, A 63-your-old Christian A villager reported to the

Nehru teemed to appeal to Instante; the camel becare an elephant to some. There were many inst Others saw it as a dog, voters tearing

were many instances of woman wanted to vote for him police that give miles from s

their ballot

as cho rogarded the Prime palling booth ho met a police Many voters expected to find papons into two or more pisces Minister, as a reincarnation of manjon a camel who stated ho the real thing inside the polling and putting a bit in different Jesus Christ Told that Nehru was, not a policeman, but: -a, booth. A number refused to vote boxes An old woman slipped wasn't a candidate she declined dacalt, who had gone into town

to vote. because there was no ladder, or a bit of her vote into all 14 to vote,

It was found that many rural people rarely if ever, look at anything printed. Two-dlinen- ulonal" representation camo hard, A ballot paper was found ethical line, she declared: to them, especially animals they placed between two boxes. The refuse to admit I am dishonest." had never seen in life, peasant who placed it there the name of Jawarhaital explained he wanted to divide his

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