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SABU RAYMOND MASSEY VALERIE HOBSON ROGER LIVESEY DESHOND TESTER. DIRECTED BY IOLTAN KORDA.

AN' ZALING DESTIĪRITION RELLASH,

ALSO GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS NO. 10

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FIRST EPISODE

NAT LEVINE

PRESENTS

BELA LUGOSI

WHISPERING SHADOW

AVALTHALL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1947.

WHAT ARE THE POWERS OF A PRINCE CONSORT?

' of Russla' words that had been used by one of

George Reynolds, founder and st that time editor of Reynolds Newa- paper.

THEN Princess Elizabeth - Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's As it was, even after his marriage could take his place next the Queen strument of the Tear

ascends the Throne of Consort, had not come all the way to Victoria, his position in the Court on all occasions; and she, to

give England, what will be the from Coburg in Thuringia to be a mors husband was extremely him authority in the Royal House the Republican leaders of the time,

kept in the background and

were for humillating. There position. rights and. duties of Intimate occasions only.

Dukes hold, and the right to so0 State nd others before him in rank and Papers and be present at her in her Consort? Can he share her

precedence and he could not even terview with Ministers. The German Princes had still not give orders to servants in the Royal him her Private Secretary;

appointed Constitutional power? Does he function as a King? Can heyletded to the nineteenth century's Household.

of passion for curbing the powers interfere in the affairs of State royally, and Prince Albert was strong ór demand to see State Papers in the faith that his job was to that require the Roval Sanc-, share with his Queen the rights and tion?

powers of a ruling monarch.

provising for this in the Constitu- Unhappily for him, there was no tion. There had been but onc Prince Consort before him,

asthmatical George of weak, fat,

husband of the much- with Denmark,

quoted Queen Anne,

Can he opeti Parliament or dissolve it? Can he command Ministers to see him? Can he warn Ministers against certain policies or influence them

is advice?

A hundred years ago, these questions nearly wrecked the British Monarchy because there was no way of answering them except by a test of strength between Ministers and the Crown.

The trouble is that the British Constitution 'does not prescribe the duties and powers of a male Con- sort. Constitutionally, a male Con- sort, even a Prince Consort, is no more than the husband of the reign- Ing Queen. He is much hor sub. Jeet bs you and I.

the

He had perceived his duty in terms of fathering fourteen children upon Queen Anne, and even this limited function he performed in-

all died effectively, for they early childhood.

In

Phiitp of Spain, husband of Mary, and Lord Guildford Dudley, hus- band of the ill-fated 17-day Queen Jane, were never Prince Consorts.

He was forbidden by Court prac- tice from sitting at the Queen's side at formal functions.

I was this latter job brought him and the Crown conflict with Ministers and wrecked the throne..

A Question That Nearly Wrecked The Monarchy

By WALTER MAPP

Even his right to share the Royal conch with her on State occasions, Auch as the opening of Parliament; was challenged.

The Royal couple lived down this which unpopularity in the years that fol-

into lowed the Crimean War. nearly

Albert not only intérpreted his duties very widely, but justified them by resort to the sacred bonds of marrings. As Queen Victoria's husband he insisted that it was his and that this duty duty to advise her and to help her overrode all other considerations.

The House of Commons had no- cepted Lord John Russell's defence of Albert against the charge of treachery, and moreover, had ac- cepted his defence of Albert's own view that his position as husband of the Queen, even if not his posi tion as Consort, put upon him the sacred obligation to help,

#uccour and advise als wife, the Queen.

In this way, Albert's status con stitutionally remained that of husband 10 tis reigning Queen, but not that of n husband whose wife alone wears the trousers,

In other words, constitutionally by precedent, a future male Con- sort will have no powers and can-. not share the powers of the reign= Ing Queen..

Horse, insisted that precedent gave Lord Albemarle, Master of the

him, not Albert, the right' to sharo First Consort Made

the Sovereign's carriage, and the matter was only settled by the Albert's Boast To No Precedents blunt no nonsense of the Duke of Wellington who, on being consult-

His Tutor ed, said: "The Queen can GEORGE'S Lord Albemarle ait on the top CONSORT

make PRINCE

TAD be left it at that, confining stitutional monarchy, his dis apparent lack of political am- the couch, under the coach, behind of bition and ot interest in public the tonch, or wherever affairs meant that he created none Majesty pienses." of those constitutional

precedents

else

HA

Her

►

The battle of 100 years ago arose because, for the first time, Dritain's ruling Monarch was a Queen who to which Albert could have palhted These anomalies were, of course, married a man who was not content as elving him authority to do like- removed. Parlament bestowed Pre- to be just husband and father. wire.

DOL

STARV

cedence upon Albert so that

ROYAL

ENGAGEMENT

DEPRE

he

his advice, not only on House- hold but also on State matters and on foreign policy, to her alone, the crisis might not have, arisen.

But he began to insist on seeing dispatches from Ambassadors be- for the responsible Minister had seen them and to alter and amend instructions to Ambassadors abroad after they had left the Foreign Midister.

the

At Interviews, between the Queen' and her Ministers he would Inter- vene with his own advice.

:

He would write to Lord Mel- bourne, advising him on foreign

jis

sense

But as her husband he will en- Joy considerable latitude, the exer- clse of which depends upon bis. respect for the limitations of a con-

and ability

of and, of course, upon the watchfal news of the British people against any attempts by the Crown to in- fringe upon the rights of a freely elected Parlament.

FACTS

Only a small part of the total energy going into an electric lamp is transformed into visible

polley as if he were King, and open- light. Most of the energy is ly bons in one of his letters to converted into heat.

his German tutor that his advice

was usually followed.

...

One of the Ministers in

The game of the

shuffleboard Was Government of the dag. Lord

known in England as early as

favourite

the

direct,

of the aristocracy.

the

Old Oklahoma superstition rules "never let a woman be the first to

Clarendon, wrote, after dining with 15th century and was a Victoria and Albert: "They Jabour under the curious mistake that the Fereign Oflee was their pccullar department and that they had right to control, if not to the foreign policy of England, enter your house on Monday morn- ing: let it be a man, even it you The resignation of Lord

must invite him in.". Palmerston at the moment when Britain Was drifting into the Crimean War with Russla was the i Jute la Bengal's foremost Cash spark that exploded popular wrath crop and India's leading export. with this state of affairs.

averaging nearly one-fourth)" "by.

My **

It was believed that he had re-value, of the export trade, signed because of Albert's Inter- ference in poilcy, made worse in the public eye by charges openly made in the Press that Albert, as a Ger- man, was playing Russia's game.

Popular Feeling Ran

High

The earth's population in 1940 2,200,000,000; this year it is

was

2,250,000,000,

The electric fun, developed the early 1800s, was one of the curliest uses of the electric motor.

It was on a well-curb. at Fort THE Consort was Dccused ct

treason, and large crowds gathered Crallo, Rensselaer, New York, that at the Tower of London-to-de-ormy surgeon, sat in 1758, whist- Dr Richard Shuckbute, a British. monstrate against the Throne and ing the tune and composing the

In the expectation that Victoria and satirical verses of "Yankee Doodle." Albert would be taken there for

trial. One popular song of the time had for its chorus:-

"We'll send him home and make

• him proan,

Oh All You've played the deuce

then;

The German lad has acted and

And

sinus ait with thy

Rus

Lighting the average home for a year cats up 000 pounds of coal at the power house.

Termites feed one another. Ac cording to Encyclopedia Britannica, one method Is the exudation of glandular products from the akin,

Popular feling and Press coins which are licked by other, members ment rat so high that Lord John of the Community. Russell, Prime Minister of the day,

had to defend the Consort in the Falling asleep in a theatre in House of Commons agujast the Houston,

charge of

being "the tool and in-law.

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A Song to Remember

Paul

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·MUNI OBERON

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With CORNEL WILDE

NINA FOCH GEORGE COULOURIS

* Screen Pixy by Sidney DuchmaÓ

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66 KINGS KOW ” with Charles COBURN * Claudo RAINS

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IN TECHNICOLOR

describes it for the layman ሲር follows: It has a Worsfold 'twin- turbine wheel

over the bucket-

take the strain of the shaft collar. The segmental glands are of the four-row Bennet, type.

Section of Internat

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Radial Ljungstrom

Clearance

casing blade Wilvas Ductor Throat

of Noggle

Direction of Steam From Shaft Converent Stipple Vive

tubing

19

Valve-Edge

The audience shout plroses at her, jack. Its peripheral velocity is 40 and before you can buy Jonkoping #II, with a fet diameter curb to stop she has repeated, them the

wrong friction, The deflector-runner

md way round-a useful lest of in- draft tubes have four vanes with telligence which I recommend to medium heads over the shaft of the Civil Service examiners I knew n man who made it a rule, when he valute charmber, and are connected

with, the

spiral tail-race by two spoke at political meetings, to em- caning vaults for the axial clearance. phasise about one word in four, but The radial blading under the cone- to make that word an important one. edges is trumpet-shaped with thong- Thus: Mumble- mumble-mumble- ale wedges and balle-pistons. The Marginal note

co-operation mumble-mum- steel cow-neck has carbon inlets ble-mumble-mumble co-ordination o worm for the driving Kovernor

mumble

Yo Minimum

'N M.P. “Alter crawling

mumble-mumble-mumble.- mumble under the bevel-clearing at the Aatteen-inch seam a miner can

British Empire. All that he said in tachometer. The equalising-pipe is between the operative words might claw-coupled with ant

does, overload eat a horse." He probably ny well have been suld backwards. thrust block Perhaps it was.

on the

diaphragm,, says Jolly Jack Hopkins, with a light Eight lucking-nuts on the bedplate laugh..

NANCY Even-Steven

OH, DEAR --- THERE.

GOES MY

HAT

I WONDER WHERE IT

WENT

tub. (8)

23

Across

1. His was more than the weekis: U. You don't usually, but you might

start with tuin course, (0) 11. Naturally he could prophesy a

Be. (3)

12. Buggestion the conductor mirar

By Ernie Bushmiller -

THE NERVE OF THEM. USING MY HAT FOR A

NEST

ERNIE, BUSHA

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