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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952.

VICTORIA

From the painting by Thomas Sully,

T

THE

OTHER YOUNG QUEEN

of

KIE accession

Queen Elizabeth the Second Inevitably calls to mind the

last occasion upon which a young Queen ascended

to

She found the monarchy on the verge of dissolution... and bor 64 years' reign changed the whole status of royalty

into psychological analysis.

the throne of England. In The sub-title of the book is by Robert Blake

1887 Queen Victoria began her long reign whose "au

and unchallenged, gust, tranquil glories," as Mr Churchill described them, will ever remain among the greatest memories of history. The character and personality of that remark able monarch are subjecta of perennial interest.

our

Dormer Creston's Miss study of the Queen's life until her marriage in 1840, just published, will please all those who enjoy colour ful detail, picturesque gos- frequent flights sip and

THE *

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Barbirolli

Touch

S

IR JOHN BARBIROLLI has ur- runged with Covent Garden to appear more often as guest con- ductor. This season he has had charge of two productions, "Turandot" and "Aidn." He hopes during future sea- sons to prepare and conduct as many as four operns. His conducting dates are now in negotiation with the Garden management.

Garden -The Convent

musical directorship is still vacant, to be sure. But who wants administrative don- key work? Guest nights are much better fun,

50

u

by Charles Reld

the monarchy.

1619 the

A Discursive Narrative. The reader who has wan- dered along the mazy paths in the position and prestige of When Queen Victoria was born of Miss Creston's story for

prospects of the 462 pages muy be inclined in to regard this as an under- House of Hanover were unpro- mising. George III was old and statement.

mad. His sons were notorious alike for their demeanour, the corals and their debts. arrd Prince Regent was a witty, indolent voluptuary. The Duke of York had been forced, for time, to abandon his post Commander-in-Chief when it was revealed that his mistress tracked in army commissions. The Duke of Clarence, labor Wil- liam IV, was a genial, buffoun with ten illegitimate children.

The Duke of Kent, Queen

who died in Victoria's father, 1820, was a military whose from discipline provoked mutinies wherever he command ed.

Only those who have had ac cess to the Royal Archives are koly to add anything new to the great amount already known about Queen Victoria's youth. Miss Creston does not belong that category. Nevertheless her book is a convenient and in- teresting reminder of the enor mous change which has taken place during the past 120 years

"The youthful Queen

(araemilian 30).

SIR JOHN

two kinds of tricks.

Victoria"

For the man in Dressing Room A

the Elizabethan-Era-

brings en ocho of the Tlara Epoch

shared first Addle desk at the ald Empire, Leicester Square, in especially if you have

its Edwardian ballet days. They whole month to get up used to take John down to re- production and everybody's hearsals when he was four.

The smell of scenery and the nice as ninepence.

music have gone When nowadays he goes in at sound of the Floral Street stage door Bar- together in Barbirolll's mind and heart ever since. While still in birolli has a snug, homing senti-

knew the ment. He was on the Garden's knickerbockers he

strength for old type theatre was for him and he for had to academic credentinis.

OVER-PRAISED?

JOX.

ien to

he Was"

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s

Naturally, the Torica did not take this lying down. The trpgle scandal of Lady Flora Hastings, described in detail by Miss n handle to the Creston, gavo Opposition. At Ascot in 1839 the Queen was publicly hinted by a Tory duchess,

At the end of her sixty-four years' reign the whole status of

Later the Queen changed the royalty had changed. Moderu direction though not the constitutional monarchy hd vehemence of her politics. The come into being. It has often wales, Palmerston and Bussell, been clained that this was the

became those #dreadful ald Queen's achievement. How for

that claim Justified?

Gladstone, the As for Mr The modern concept of the Queen's pen splutters with rago constitutional monarch has four at the thought of him, "A will requirements; private lite fanatical old man of 78" wrapped beyond reproach; a capacity for abeo-bing endless State papers; delusions and illuilons. If he up in his own Incomprehensible a readiness to take the lead in could only be stopped!" Else- ceremonial affairs; a rigorous where she refers to him as "that detachment from party politics, half-mad Arebrand." "Others to his democratic submit to his may The Queen did indeed possess rule but not the Queen," that first two of there qualities,

In Queen Victoria's youth the but not the others.

Far from Grown was expected to inter- being a public figurehead she vene actively in politics. It was became after her husband's death for many years a complete ideas even into hos old age.

natural for her to carry on these recluse. So remote was she from the publle eye that in some Radical circles the cost of keep-

martin ing"

SINISTER DUKE

HER DEVOTION

up the monarchy became The real creator of constitu- open to question, and in 1871 a tional monarchy was that most famous, pamphlet was published able and misjudged figure, the on the subject of royal finance Prince Consort. Himself detach with the title-What Does Shed from English parties, he saw that, to survive In a democratic The sinister Duke of Cumber- Do With It?

As for politics the Queen - Interested in politics, must exert age, the Crown must appear dis- land was reputed-erroneously-- to have murdered his own valet. mained to her dying day an

inveterate partisan Her father influence by advice which could Finally came the Duke offre, had been a Whly, and the began only be effective if the Sovereign

but eccentric, sex, harmless

seclusion amk Afty of the Whig Party. Her partienn- of State but was believed to be Afty her reign almost as a protegee thoroughly understood the affairs living in thousand books and several hundred musical clocks, and the ship was enhanced because her politically impartial.

wicked uncle, the Duke of Cum-

For all her strong feelings Dake of Cambridge

whose berland, who was next in suc- Queen Victoria never quite for loquacity

so irrepressible berla was

cession, had lang

been an ex- got her husbuzid's precepts. Hor that even in church he kept up

trome Tory, and many of his political prejudices were known A stentorlan running commen-

supporters hoped to see him suc- only within a limited circle. The tary upon the service.

seed to the Throne.

loyalty of the very leaders, who It is

is not surprising that the

Indeed, so ludicrous ware

the had

most cause for complaint, Duke of Wellington once de-

fears entertained by the Duchess prov

any provented

widespread the damnedest of Kent for her daughter's safety knowledge of the Queen's hos- scribed them as millstones about the necks of In her childhood days that at one tilty to the Liberal Party. Нег be time she insisted upon all meals devotion to public duty had made being tasted by someone before- her by the end of her life one of the most popular monarchs In our history.

any government that can imagined. They have insulted personally insulted-two-thirds hand in care of polson. of the gentlemen of England." The reigns

In her early years on the of George IV and William IV, rocked the monarchy Throne the Queen continued to The monarchy, which seventy to its foundation, Queen Vic- be

At the years earlier had seemed upon passionate Whig. toria's mere existence by pre- election of 1841-to the Prince the verge of dissolution veming a further succession of Consort's horror £16,000-of-stood firmly rooted-in-publle- royal brothers did much to save Royal money was spent in the esteem, ready to face the tem the Crown from duster.

Whig interest.

peats of the twentieth century,

BRITISH ARMY WILL

STRENGTHENED

BE

date

*

By Peter Lovegrove

received

Was sent

to

One

the

at our wits end. I had but/ram "Darby 17th" are at pra- ́80 men left out of my 800, no food, little ammunition: all our food was being eaten by the Jocks."

now

sent in Germany with the 1st Battalion, but will refur to England on the forming of the 2nd Battalion.

The original 2nd battalion was raised in 1823, and sufer-

World

WAS

War

(Continued on Page 7, Col(7)

to

CONNUMINE scazons as long ago the theatre. But first he

THE news, that seven as 1027, twilight of the Tiara Pick even, wearing a saltor suit, second battalions of Epoch. In 1952, fingering his bow

famous regiments are tie and eyeing himself in the he played solo at a Trinity Col-

the mir:c of Dressing Room A, he lege concert in a hideously dif says, "Yes I'm at my old tricks ficult 'sello concerto, that of Gol- being reborn during

termann. Later he was a Royal coming spring and summer,

was presented to the battalion ed terrible hardships in the again."

Academy scholarship boy, Joined which was announced by Mr and Gevenchy,

at Tidworth in 1030.

Crimea, less than 100 men re- classical chamber music teens, Antony Head, the War Mesopotamia and also fought in

The Royal Welch have al- turning to England out of the flattering notices with But Barbirolli's tricks are of won

To be called Secretary, in the House of Palestine in World War recitals.

and in the operations against ready had three second bat- 1,000 who had composed the two kinds. There are his opera Wigmore

recently', was a nice Commons

has the Arabs there in 1937. talions. There was a first short regiment when it miled, It tricks. And there are his con- the future Casals

nct bring in been welcomed far beyond

Д remarkable lived appearance in 1786. It fought in the Indian Mutiny, cert hall tricks They do not thing, but It did

British Army Circles.. tribute from the enemy in the was re-created in 1894 for inn and inter stw service in Egypt, necessarily come out of the same the money.

earned undying India and Tibet. box.

At 15 John was carrying his

British from

Somaliland It represents the first fruliste war. After being evacuated years, and

it fame at Corunna in the Penin- France during

Ono, A3 a concert conductor and cello from this cinema to that,

went into action against Ger aula War, and then was re- and crossed the Channel again before that as a player, he has playing music for silent filma at of the economies en manpower

administrative units and man parachutists at Herakilon vived in 1858, when it lived with the BEF in 1939. After done well,

brilliantly. less than two shillings an hour. In even

by in Crete in 1941. The enemy for 60 years, and fought with taking part in the Dunkirk (Perhaps not as brilliantly as For a film that ran 90 minutes headquarters recommended

the battalion commander who op- distinction at Ashanti and in evacuation, it fought in North his wilder champions make out. he would and up to 80 places of the Templer Committee

the two World Wars. Army in fact is cutting is tall posed them said, when he was

Africa, was in the Pantelleria For a year or two his Halle muse on his stand.

and Anzio landings and subso- over- From

orchestra to to strengthen its teeth-and is captured some time later: "My Orchestra was grossly Draised in some

an easy also a sign of the successful Brst surprise was when I found

quently fought its way up I theatre orchestra was quarters.)

re to Army as a stop. By 1916 he was doing up stimulus given

the position 'was held. The vaguely

Rome and beyond, From 1945 remember him

The Sherwood Foresters 2nd to 1947 the battalion served in young man in striped trousers to sight shows a week at 12s. 6d cruiting by the new three-year second was when I discovered

Regular engagement, which is who the infantry were. The Battalion Is the old 95th Palestine, Syria and Egypt. and full coat leading a hundred a show.

contimied attracting recruits at a rate, it battle

with £20 £12 108. ages from 'cellos (all

The Green Howarda and the great Derbyshire Regiment, and it is of about 50,000 maintained,

two days. The the Aerocity, for

am of, the Regiment, Lancashire •Fusillers both sixty) in plummy adaptations

When nothing better offered,

all Derby- men year,

Watch never surrender- possible, to have

raised second battalions at the of Bach at the Kingsway Hall,

The seven regiments, select- od. Had it been any other re- shire and Nottinghamshire men outbreak of the Seven

Years' At 25 he was touring an or- he played in cafes and musle At 36 he halls-even in panto, at the old

ed. becaus0 they had been giment, any other, ali

would in it. The colours of the bat War in 1758, and again exact- chestra of his own. succoded Toscanini as chief of Surrey have mayed every most successful in Regular re- have been well. Even we were talion and their mascot, the New York Philharmonic and where except in the street heerulting, are:

"And I don't regret a The Green Howards (Alexan- basked in American success for says.

minute of it. Good training it

dra, Princess of Wales's Own seven years.

and oratorlo Symphony

Yorkshire Regiment). Gradually he moved up. On prepares with love and tenacity most nights when

The Lancashire Fusiliers. he was not

The Royal Welch Fusiliers,

Crate, UPSIDE DOWN

the battalion After playing in bigger and better

The Royal Inniskilling Fuel was in Tobruk during the point To demonstrate a

of orchestras he was conducting on

Исти.

slege and then fought as Chin- his own account. phrasing he will borrow the o-

Austin,

Watch In 1026, Frederick

The Black

(Royal dits in Burma. chestra leader's fiddle and play

Two of the other second bat- British National Highland Regiment). it upside down with its tail on chief of the

Sherwood The

the Foresters tallons originated with it were

baby Opera Company, windling him Reception Office, Hongkong Hotel Recaption Office, Peninsula Hotel a table top, as it

orchestra-pit

Derby Hon. East India Company, The for (Nottinghamshire and 'collo.

he could, of out of the It he chose

shire Regiment).

Durham Light Infantry's conducting course, play the idle right way good, put him on the

The Durham Light Infan- the 2nd Bombay Europeans up. but

him

aleed in 1820 which was later raised (retired) and

to twenty try.

British the week after, and

amalgamated with the comes more naturally.

Line as the 100th (Bombay With choral societies he has knocked off two pounds (part of

Light Infantry) Regt. the ways of his own. At a rehearsal a general economy cut)

Daly the King's Royal Rifle East Indla Company's 3rd one Sunday morning his tenors week after that. Such ups and

Europeans, who and basses falled at a tricky downs were typical of English Corps of the other 57 Intan Madras hurate in a concert version of opera finance in the twenties try regiments have already had good service during the Mutiny, 108 h ;-(Madras The Mastersingers." "If you get Barbirolli did not greatly mind: their second battalion restored, become tha

battalions All reven

havo Infantry) Regt. when TETLE this right," he promised, "you He had got where he wantert to

fine regimental traditions, ferred to the British Crown, can all have pints on me." He be.

and and later the 2nd battalion of On paper, he

more most distinguished past, Is now was true to his word. After the rehearsal a bonus bec queue prosperous than he has ever their battle honours read like the Royal Inniskilling Fusi formed at the restaurant bar been. His Moncheater salary is a slice of British history next door.

The War Secretary confirm- His concert hall doings aure GREED? NO od in the Commons that the Black Watch, the senior. High- watched by Lady Barbiroll with Naher a lot? "Well, no,"

Nowhere will Mr Head's an eye that is professional as well as wifely. A stylish oboe argues Barbirolll, "People often land regiment, was the most

recruits today.

warmly welcomed than in the player, she figures on concert talk about big salaries, paid to popular with Regular infantry announcement have been more Corps, bills under her maiden name, big on paper, but with taxation

The "Red Hockle's second United States Marino.

its origin

which has had a long associa to Evelyn Rothwell, and plays

Welch in tion with the concertos which her husband has asla you don't see much of battalion traces devised from-18th century scores have to keep, our fees high for

and as the Perthshiro,

13rd

The first time they actually by Corelli and Pergolesi.

Perthshire Regiment fought in two reasons-(a) for prestige, the West Indies, at Martinique met was when they were me

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