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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1087.

PUTTING IT ACROSS

YOUNG Bentleman named.

A Robert Taylor, bill American mim American Film putting the standard exactly high.

stor, of comparatively recent Holly-

wood vintage, has fultered the doves Publicity Methods

in suburbia. la arrival thin -country has been the, occasioni of

remarkable manifestations.

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There overwhelming ovations migrating American film stars, both sexes, are by no means the qu d'Aporaneous affairs the news- paper-reading public might imagine. Lucy are in actual fact us carefully Police Sund to be mobilised to By "AN OLD STAGER" and elaborately organised and inspir

ed as any film studio "set." control and restrain the crowds offi Idolatrous and Hipsticked flapper Because, camouflage it as one may Part of the crowd no doubt consleis who namembled to welcome their in that is what, when it is boiled right of wit amateur Alm fans, but the hert ut Waterloo Statiun. 10 down, this display of female hysterin main uctors, the front-row people deed, Mr. Robert Taylor's admirers

who do the major extravagancës, ure were so persistent that it was deem really amounts to.

It was good publicity no doubt, but all in professionals. They, aro ed necessary to smuggle him down rather hocking pathology. These part of the personnel technically the milkean it.

occurrences have given grove offence known as "the crowd," and I suspect This was to ensure him getting to to a great

decent simple- they get the regulation fee for tak- fnalitonable West End Hotel minder people, One worthy London in part in these fan ovations. hia without being dismembered, or at aldermati has declared that these the very least having his clothes torn women demonstratory, these nail. The Real Culprits off, by his Impulsive admirers of the linted nymphs wordipping at -the gentler zex.

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So for from being. then, the idolatrous and shameless hussies they appear to be, there innin "crowd" actors are just playing the usual role in the usual make-believe.

A score of active young women, used to film "crowd" work, en noun altenet a big crowd of idlers, and afford attendant Press photographers. plcity of sensational

sringehols. Now I certainly have no particular This port of stuff is part and parcei sympathy with these queer patholo- of the American film publicity ramp. And American Om publicity. Iel leni symptoms by the London latties. am willing to make confession that, ne assure you, just about touches the the nadir of ethical and artistic degrada- until some of our journals of

er sort storied booming him a few tion. heard of Mr. Robert Taylor.

OUR BRITISH crosswordS

20

14.

15

116

18

24

ACROSS

1 Not a butter but a raliwny em-

ployee.

(see 7

8 Early O.T. character

down.),

10 Charlatan.

This time is intervening.

make a town.

12 Fifty of these animals

Hunting or artistic work. 18 A fastener. -19-Memento:---

20 Mediterranean. Jaland.

21 A philosoplier,

would

22 Describes the 20 down who got

into a ditch, and then change,

hnd

14

23 Character from "The Tempest."

24 That other man's accent. 25 The householder

naturally would not exist to pay a heavy bill for the supply this.

for

of

t dimeuit chuc

Behind these crowds of hysterical11 I am quite willing to believe that ung and middle-aged women one perceive the romantle but usually this omission is far more my mis- spatuiste figure of the bright merk fortune than bis, Hat his screen ap can publicity hoss, with violently

en, one gathers, is not exactly, ad- banded clar complete, his thick dressed to nerious elderly gentlemen, fingers rely dight with gems, and At his Mayfair hotel in London nor to people for whom the literary an accent you could not cut with a Mr. Taylor has been closely besieged classics have still a greater charm steam-w. by crowds of womey, most die than even the olekent Yankee film But he is not the villains of the Happer variety, but by no means ail

captions.

pleee. He would be complete and null in their green or salud days.

inny employ a homely - West uller Bop if Fleet Street's untouch- More police were needed when

Country metaphor, we do not hoe the ables of the stunt Press had a grain hud transpired that Mr. Taylor

same row of turnips. Yet I am pre- of either sense or taste, secretly eloped with himself to Paris, pared to believe that Mr. Taylor is vallen of common decency might

Even clear away the disconsolutely a perfectly nice fellow, despite his save

them. importunate fair ones from the street cinema fans, and I am thuroughly So long as journals exist, and find 28 Epithel in front of his hotel.

persuaded that the feminine symp- a lucrative sale, which give up their Before he beat his Paris getreat, toms elicited by his advent here can valuable space to this kind of tripe 30 A Parliament abroad.

perhaps. However, Mr. Taylor appeared on his not in any serious degree have im- so long shall we have the

artistic33 Tidol water. debonair

perilled the status of Great Britain. biniliation of appearing, in the ex- Famous carienturist. hantel veranda, waved hand to the ecstatic assembly down It seems to me just possible, presstve vernaculur of the below, and gracefully threw

publicity 35 One of the U.S.A. away knowing a little about film publicity and stum mechanics, to "in for the mid of his vigorette. Some of the minds,

36 Something to the that

be expressed critics are But the Influence of this tragically exemplars of sex equality in

otherwise. the belabouring the wrong bends. These debured modern school of imported street scrambled for that stub, us

DOWN crowds of emotional

who American Journalism, except per- romantic relic, very much

on turned Waterlun Station Into a, haps for evil, just hil, I

merely Shrove Tuesday thr Westminster Rugger serum and inter fure their reflects the gutter mentality of the schoolboys struggle for

prize cloilies in ighting for the American groundlings. Its existence, an a go- pancake.

im aglar's cigarelle end no more ing enneern, strongly suggests that we Allogether I has been 15 most represent our fritish womanhood are in the lower stratum a mentally revealing if not edifying exhibition than Brixton Hill does 'the Gram- CA people. of feminine emotionalism under the plans.

In the end stunt publicly will stimalus of what G.B.S. politely and They are not even typical of our probably long itself in its own dag- euphoniqusly calls the Life Foree. Cockney flappers, and that is not bured hyperbole.

Royal

a

women

To-day and

Trayel

Yesterday

had to pay a heavy price for luxurs inus floyal travel in the okl days. First for Comfort

SOMETIMES wonder what the handful of crities who carp át the "expeme" of 10yalty would say they lived a century or more a. Before railways and steamship.

The Train and the motor car may case Hills Sovereigns travelled in By ELISSA ST JOHN appear dull and prosaic to romantic style when they visited the "pro- the well-known Writer on Royalty eyes, lait even tradition-loving: Curen

Victorm declared that her

special vinees." Compare, for Instapes, the

Royal train was better und more Journey by train from London title more modernte in their demands comfortable than the finest coach or Scotland of our present King George for free hospitality, but even up to chariot ever made. It is amusing to VI with the glittering progressi-by Queen Victoria's accession royal real-that-when-Queen-Victoria-first vhits were very expensive luxuries began to use the railway there was roud of Charles in 16337

for the localities so fafoured,

comfortable thin the finest coach of When the present King goes North

the drivers and the Royal coach- George IV valt to Edinburgh in men. The latter stoutly maintained renreely a dozen offelals 'accompany 1822, when be stayed a fortnight in him. Charles, on the other hand, the Scottish capital. compted to drive the Queen,

had the right to that they alone

# claim rather in left London for Edinburgh May have cost the Inhabitats/collectively foulishly supported by the Master of 1939 attended by a gorgeously atured over £200,000. Perhey were the Horse, a Court offfetal who is suli retinue of over 1,000; including the conseled by bearing the King declare in

charge of all Royal Supreme Archbishop of Canterbury, another a speech that "they were a city

the ground. acity of journeys made bishop, two deans, and four chap- palaces." George IV. It is interest Whether by conch, motor car, horse-

back, or train. Inlar. Over 000 meninl servants Íngt to recall, was the last King to, travelled with the ddvolende, and the travel North offcially by ship,

In pre-railway days, avhen the King's barber, we read, had himself The Age of Speed

Royal stables sheltered hundreds of horses and carriages, and Sovereigns three servants. Nearly 1,500 hores,

had, no other incais of travelling, changed at various stages, were re-

Queen Victoria travelled by sen on other than riding or

walking, the quired for the 300 miles journey, her drat visit to Scotland in 1842. post of the Master of the Horse was which took over a month to com- The journey toole TWO days from most Important and arduous one.

Woolwich to Granton, plete.

for any Edinburghs. He was invariably blamed Now a Royal visitor can do the trip bitches or cellents which took The people on the route were ex- well inside eight hours by train, a place on Royal journeys, and the pected to entertain in royal fashion striking commentary on this vant Tudbe, Staart, and early lanoverians

to the passing monarch, 11

dating from the Tudors.

presents

in

of gentlemen fiving in

pect,

all the King's men and horses, and change in the mode of Royal travel were ruthless masters in this rea -the-wealthy - and titled classes were in-u-century;-

compelled to acts leads to the King and his exalted courtiers without any

The coming of the railways re- The large number of attendants recompense. It was also the rule for volullonised the lives of monarchs as and servants which necompanied the it did everyone else. When, greatly Sovereign on Journeys in the past royal boroughs, Mayors, peers, and daring, Queen Victoria, on June 14, were for protection as well as dis- dignitaries to make costly

and custom 1042, took her first Journey by train, lay

service. Fortunately, from Wiridsor to Paddington. Brisly Sovereigns no longer, require mirked

a historie turning point, a travelling army for, protection. Charles and his gay throng were. Tise trip, "free from dust, and crowd Their sure shield is the loyal affection never in any hurry to proceed to und heat," to use her ow words, of the people, who do not care how their Journey's end. On the way to shocked many people, but the young unobtrusively the King may trave

quite so long as he arrives unfely at his at Berwick. When he left the town charmed willi-{." A your or two desilmation. Changed days, indced...... was much the poorer for the royal later she, journeyed from Perth to but better ones. stay, and new local hyles and taxes, London by train, and never again hud to be put in force for a long did she go to and from her beloved time afterwards to make good the ex- Scotland by sea, pense of entertaining kim,

Telephone. 28021 Edinburgh he stayed a whole week Queen boldly wrote, "I am

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Train and motor car are the chief means of transport for our present King and Queen, and costs the Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth natter not a penny apart from the loved to travel throughout England: ment. The King purchases his own State allowance voied by. Parlins but these "progresses," as they were motor cars, he pays the railway com- called, were heavy drains on their mar friends and subjects. "Queen Bess" panies when he travels by rail, and on her frequent tours cost her during his State or private visits numerous hosts thousands of pounds thoughout the country, the expenses in the aggregate, for not only did she are kept ou as low a level na possi

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