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London Express Bervios:

GILES AND SINGOLD AT ASCOT

IF YOU'VE never been to Ascot you're about to learn what you've missed. And oh, what you've missed. ... The Mistress of the Outspoken Word today gives her audacious commentary on the world's most famous sporting-cum-social event as she shared it

own

WHERE WORDS fail Miss Gingold... Giles takes over with an equally individual view of the proceedings at Ascot.

by HERMIONE GINGOLD

SCOT is 80 very, very nice, I have never been there be- fore. In fact I've never been to a race meet- ing before. Mother always used to tell me that good girls didn't back horses.

But, Ascot, I found, is as harmless and as gen'eel as the church foto it so closely resem- bles. If they put up fancy-goods stalls I think they would get exactly the same atendance,

or course, it's all terribly class-conscious. There, at the sweet little white gates, stand in green velvet frock

coats

2.

ASCOT TOPPER

tucked undornoath an arm

I didn't see any theatricals tough. Can they all be work-

excepi me?

nove

(IN PERSON)

In

al

It came

third Buch

torrifle price; I collected £1 7. 5d. when I even- tually found the back alleys where they craftily hide the Zs. pay-out windows. Note the Sd.-at As- cot indeed. Wo threw it away.

I felt very smug about the whole thing end simply livid about the two ex- perts I'd met

me lo persuaded two other horses be- fore I fell in love

the

with No.: 13 arid gum - chewing

or trainer whoever he was.

or

The green lawns were by then confettied over with the torn-up tickets of other punters who'd probably run into the same two experts.

ASCOT ILLUSION........

Gingold and Gilos going the wrong way, typically

strong mene jaded think and the large party upholstered owner or

отсу alderwept satin number they send their clothes to the wrong cleaners, and one of them in pink with the two petunias had obviously, but unsuccessful on her hat nodding furiously at y, tried washing his jacket at each other would take for their

outfits?) home) to keep the wrong sort of people like me for instance uut of the Royal Enclosure,

Bis: then, what happens when They've got one wonderfully

And My Aches the exalted folk therein come

From now on whenever a man something: being Mt Ascot. The DUT how are you to tell a real cut for

It not exciting thing breath of freer tunnel. It's a bit dis

Bu a bit disconcerting expert from a just-pretend starts to say something about butter. It fresher air between races?

to lace becomes

to face an underground one at Ascot? I discovered that women's silly hats I'll just hies think it wasn't Why, the whole place

nice horses. royal race-

one man wearing a grey topper one word-Ascot. lovely garden party, with the movement on

another

My arm was beginning to.ache looks just ke

Sull the horses were just large hats are so fattering but gentlemen in top hats queueing course. But there it is.

If you want to get from the

wonderful. up at the two bob totes and the handsinad (daring men in mill. Wearing a grey, topper.

There's something about those thought that more people would such a bore to have to hold on In capa getting served chups

to in a breeze-to say nothing quicker the

timetary-uniforms unconcernedly hard hats that brings out the have looked at them.. ut

£5 a

twiddly-dum-dum worst in the

From the restaurant (the set- of, my feet. windows.

If I'd been surprised at hear Yet neither of these queues

through all the excitements of especially when it doesn't fit the meal one not the tea scrimmage.

place) came a delicious smell of ing the cultured voices pleading is as long as the queue for tea, the day) to the paddock you head.

take the subway. For Ascot, apparently, is not mean to be just another place to back horses. Lots of people go there just to listen to the band.

A

This is so you don't have to leap over the Royal Enclosure (wish I'd brought my brɔoni- ack with me), but in the tunnel you meet just everybody-very The refreshment funtadic. There are the morning recognise familiar faces leering amudng in the gloom trying to coats, and flimsy floral frocks at you from under unfamiliar

room

ASCOT NECK By this sign, know him

up to their elbows in the coun

ter slope, all jammed together

but never shoving, of course trying to get cups of tea,

is

hals,

Somehow, though, you don't seam, to see the same people above the ground.. Can they spend the whole afternoon down there?

My Lucky Third

OH yes I had to back a horse.

So I went looking for the man who dopes them mentally frisking all those sporty looking gents for the betraying bulge of a syringe.

man

male face-

should

have

cooked in for sugared or unsugared ten, it was comforting to was a bit of a shock to hear one of those sighs of "Gosh iny dogs acht "

in. purest Roedean

I understand how they felt. I

think that Ascot needs to be mechanised. Next year why not have Ascot On Ice? So far it's about the only thing that hasn't Been done on lec,

-London, Express Service)

BACK TO WORK THEY GO".. With a PAY GRIEVANCE

£1,000 a year

why, that

means fish

and chips for an M.P.

I reckon that about 200 M.P.s salary of £1,500 a year. In the Some people complain: "Why TS your M.P. well paid on

to make-do on their Australian Parliament they get should M.Ps fix their own What happens? I run into a

£1,000 a year? I sup have friend of mine who tells me

pose many people think parliamentary salaries, without £1,600, plus an expense allow solaries?" But company, directors with the air of a man who knows

Salaries for the professional about such things: "Ascot is no 90, Some may say the any suplementary help. This is ance which varies from $400 to do so

who lives in his constituency, constituency. ....

classes are usually determined place for backers because all the salary is far too much. But rough on the provincial member 2000, according to the type of horses are trying to win." (Me, is it? I don't think so. or outside Landon. The greater

New Zealand, with a popular, after negotiation or arbitration, of the doctora allly dirt that I am thought "What between keeping a part of his salary is absorbed by

hotel costs, meals at the House, tion of fewer than 2,000,000, payz Take the case

a recent adjudica- that happened at every race homme in my constituency,

postage, telegrams, trunic calis, MPs less than Britain-£000 a who, after

ara expecting to share. course). U's a little surprising to hear.

the other subscriptions and donations, to year but there is an expense tion, Sull I would not be put off. said one M.P.

allowance ranging from £250 to £40,000,000, in all.. ex-gether with

£550. the deep, rich voices of the men There in the paddock I spotted night, "paying hotel In the grey toppers and the a frisl

frisky, beautifully polished, penses in London, postage something

A whisper badge of privilege (The Royal golden brown horse being patted and the rest, I can hardly for secretaris by Enclosure rectangular Lubel) by simply divine looking mab Infoning prosaic remarks like who was chewing gum. All the afford to pay for a decent al help.

or meal; that's why I'm hav Ever with and one without, other owners or trainers

whoever they were, werd faced and smokine ere grim-ing fish and chips."

cigars.

"Ono

please."

and

EMANUEL SHINWELL

Canadian M.Ps get what is

(£050).

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called a "sessional Indemnity" TF electors don't relish thi Idea of 4,000 dollars (£1,800). to-

of M.Ps fixing their own gether with an annual expense pay, why not refer the matter allowance of 2,000 dollars

to arbitration? That, I should not be at all surprised, might Most of the Commonwealth lead to a substantial increase in parliamentary salurica," pèrbops countries provide free passes on much more than the pubile M.P. their railways, not only for

MP delights in populari. I slyly thought the whole This succulent dish can now

fly, but the My New Hat thing out: Perhaps the money be had, in the

select dining more popular the Adonis type saved on elgarn room of the House of Commons, they are the THEN there are the clothes, he spent on superior hay for his at the modest price of

ono more visi

M.Ps but also for their wives would like. So the matter had Who over started all that horse. I rushed off like mad to shilling and tenpence, without tors they at silly talk about dressing-up for the tote to put my two bob on trimmings. Just plain ash and tract,

and families. Free postage is better bo left to the Gover chips, which Ascot? I bought myself a beaut- Kairi No. 13,

before the war, this means hospitality. Some the rule, and in some cases ment to decido: Wrapped ful new hat--black and

up in paper, cost constituents appear to think, secretarial assistance is available. The needs of the majority feathered and shiny and

fourpence. If every free of charge, Large (it carts simply

M.F. who cares to indulge in "on the House." One lady fold this proletarian repast. bewitching shadotas evor my face) and then good heavens you sco come woman

perfectly In 'a Kordinary

mackintosh having her picture taken by the news photogra- phers.

Downfie

The

The general pleture is like a crowd scene from Land, except Il's

overdone. A smart set are too amart. Imagine, sliver lame at two in the afternooni

And the

character just too good to So true. (I wonder, how much the women. In the

3RD

ASCOT DRAMA. Hermione say

Retainers

yours

of MPs would probably be met by a straight increase of something between £800 and

me the other morning, when I

Free mail took party round, that, tho

£500 a year. always thought that "tea on the THE U.S.A. excels in genero-But mind my words; the ngita- terrace" Was provided frees

Laity to its legislators. Ac- tion is blowing camp, and isn't and for nothing. grails,

cording to the Act of 1940, confined to one party More TANY of the members are for-- It is now, mặc

Binco which governs, salaries in Atunote in having independent MPa had a salary increase. House of Representatives, they pered in my car how difficult it the than one Tory MP. has whis- means, others receive fees 05 This was ofter a select company directors, a forgo num- mitice of the House of Comcelvo "compensation" at the is, to most both his commit ber practise at the Bar, and mon had recommended that rate of 12,000 dollars (4,205) ments and his parliamentary

In addition to a tax-free allow responsibilities, quite a few are professional the salary should be increased ance of 2500 dollars (2000), Your M.P. Is no more entitled Journalists.

000 to from

£1,000 Even some of the trade union.

of Parliaments be treat mail for all official correspon organise, than any other citizen. they enjoy retainers from their ed less generously than his dance, travelling allowance on a But Miter, you have given him Organisations. Most of them can colleagues throughout the Com- liberpacale, and up to 0,000 your vol and placed your poll- afford to pay the prices com- nionwealth? Veedollars (R2,250) for "clurk hire. ileal deniales in his hands don't members of the equivalent of a full-time look upon him a chloodmicker parable with thoro Charged in in South Africa ma

Mul kecause he wants to paykie wIT. wood-clage restaureate.

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year

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