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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1948.

need do is breathe

A Arm called VIP (Very Important Vor- fer, There Is a piecework organliation, too,

Noday in net born. Special sons, will set you hotels when you can't get and a dog-walking firm.

service, will, talce over for you at that point.

It begins with spicial dloper services, nursery school services, baby-sitting ser- vices.

By the time you are old enough to ba falling out of tries, an organisation called Cub Partion, Inc., will be feeding you balloons and ice cream.

Your mother doesn't have to cook for you; Casserole Kitchen sends the meal around all ready for the teeth.

Mama needn't slave at the cleaning; apreial house-cleaners mop the floor. If you go away in the summer, another butt will close your house and open it on your return. There is a firm which specialises in packing

unpacking. Another wraps packages.

If you want to throw a big party, there are any number of catering outfits which will provide the grub, arrange the drink, serve it to the guests, and pitch the drunks out on the sidewalk.

Presumably, Alcoholics Anonymous will be standing patiently on the step, walling to catch them on the first bounce.

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hotels, big fight tickets when you can't buy. tickets, transportation when you can't get transportation.

I will send orchids to the wife of the visiting fireman, scotch to the fireman him- self. It will take the old lady shopping and wedge her into the hit shows,

You can buy bobbysoxers for a quart:r a head to stand, outside the hotel door and howl. For a slightly higher price they will tear your clothes off, so everybody will know you are famous.

There is a reminder service, which will serve as the string around your finger, for pay. The telephone answering service takes your calls and allows you to sidetrack prats, bill collectors, and visiting relatives. A re- pair service will do everything from sewing en bullons to reupholstering the divan,

You have a book of the month, a necktie of the month, fruit of the month, candy of the month, dress of the month,

A lem will send cards to anybody you dealre at sinted times each year, for a clas

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Escort services will take the crawballs dancing, and in the cheaper magazines, the lonely hearts and other pen pal bureaus are sgiving Cupid a hand.

If you wish to make a gentlemanly deal with soured wife, other services wil

coin- a suitable partner for n arrange promising situation which will hold up in. court, and you are free to woo again.

Digest services capsule books, papers, and magazines you have not read. Health clubs will pound, knead, and steam the hangover out of you, and supply you with an artifelal tan,

The hospitals will give you other people's eyes, blood, and bones.

You do not need to earn fame-Press agents will furnish the ersatz variety through the columns and puff sheets. Hollywood, the radio, and historical novels take care of the emotions.

When you marry, spectal services will run the show.

When you die, the special, Joblot under- takers plant you-a short prayer is included with their service.

NON-AUSTERITY FORTRESS

To bo a Warder is far harder than

Query: How Big Is A Leprechaun?

Bý PATRICIA CLARY

RIDDLE as unanswerable

na "how high is up" has been plaguing the million- dollar minds nt. 20th. Century- Fox studios in Hollywood: how big is a leprechaun?

Movic-makers with such. problems usually send them to the research department. But no encyclopaedias, reference books or historical societies.can answer the question, because nobody's over seen a leprechaun.

One of those fairy shoemakerz of Irish folklore who keep pots of gold burled in the woods plays: a top role in "Leave it to the Irish." Io gave director Henry Koster a knotty casting problem.

"Leprechauns are little fellows, about knee high," actresses Mau- reen O'Hara and Geraldino Fitz- gerald, who believe implicity in them, assured Koster.

Robert is not the oldest Beefeater,'

"I have friends who have friends HAT do Britain's overseas someone discovered they were like

woods,** that in the visitors rush to see on

days of Queen Anne, becoming a policeman, a Member of nor the senior. CSM D. Sprake of who've seen them in the Anne hated austerity and {ovel

Miss O'Haru Insisted. "Sometimes their arrival? The answer bright colours.

Parlament or a film actor. To start the Dorsets is 81, and in his spare in the Tower of London. Every The American visitor likes to. With they must have served in the time does the Tower's tailoring. He you almost step on them."

Air Force for 21 years, has Sited every uniform for 30 years. Kester thought about signing a morning its gates are opened to stare at the window in the King's Army or a Blendy flow of Americans, house from which the other. Anne have reached the ranks of warrant The only changes he has seen within midget or a child to play the part. Boleyn-gazed out at the grass be- officer or colour sergeant, made their those grey walls are the marks of Then he considered using camera Continentala and Orientals, who low where she was to die in 1535; mix with Britain's country, and the next window where Rudolph application for the job before leav- 15 direct hits and 250 incendiaries tricks to dwarf a full-size actor. cousins from the Highlands. Hess Inoked out in 1941, wondering ing the service, be in possession of in World War Two. The bullders of must have known of the holiday crowds like to climb the duct medals, a madal for war veriler, for they built to withstand his if he was to suffer a similar fate. the Long Service and Good Con- the Tower narrow steps to БОС the Crown vice, bo under 50 years of age, not Jewels behind their protective grill, less than five feet eight inches, and bombs.

Wales and northern counties on their occasional visits to the capital.

For compared with other London landmarks this romantic spot, seeped

as it is in the events of yesterday,

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By R.G.

BENNETT

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PICKS SIX-FOOTER

"It's all hearsay,” ho decided. "Nobody ever really saw a lepre- chaun Nobody knows whether they're gnomes or giants."

The senior ofeer is that of Chief Warder. Regimental-sergeant-major Arthur Cook lefi the Somer- So he picked Cecil Kellaway, one has somehow survived the postwar to look at the ancient armour in the pass the scrutinous eye of the Re- set Light Infantry to rise to this of Hollywood's finest actors, and the one of its biggest. He stands six austerity. At Buckingham Palace, White Tower or the ancient chapel of sident Governor. Their pay is 25 post, the sign of which is

crossed keys embroidered in cold feet. the Guards still wear their wartime St. Peter and Vincula, where so many a week (£5 59, after two years),

firend on the

the sleeve of his tunic. drab

Whitchall, khaki. In

Wearing their new picturesque At night time he goes

with

The Irish around, the studio were mounted troops brought out theirs of the past have warshipped.

redding week, Yeomen west attraction are the uniforms, and settled in their 58. the squad of Guardsmen and the horrified by a six-foot leprechaun.

But the plumes for the Royal

themselves. They week married quarters, where pride Beefeater holding the lantern to They said he would never get away and then put them away again. At hold down one of the most unique of place is given to the Warder's

ceremony which with it. look the gates-n history jobs in England--still dressed in the official History of the Tower, they has been done nightly for 700 years. the Tower, the colourful

and alive. unlike the uniform designed for their Dre watch their names being added to When the sentries yell, "Who Goes seems vitai

"People thought nobody could various London museums where ex- decessors in the Stuart days and the list of nearly 240 on the board

there?" hibits of yesterday are placed out of their knowledge of history has to in the Warders' Hall. That list only cries, "King George's Keys," and his out, "and look at Edmund Gwenn. it is his stirring voice which play Santa Claus," Koster pointed reach, with a hand-off atmosphere, equal that of lecturer of history. goes back to the time of Wellington, agure which passes on at the reply, Kellaway is going to be to lepre- in stuffy halls that have the dead- There are officially 50 Beefeaters, but the records of Warders aro "Pass, King George's Keys."

but of these 13 are non-active-that, available from 1543. liness of a wax works.

ro- is, they live in retirement. The

Next to Cook comes Yeoman are very active eight They get free medical treatment maining 37

allowances. Gooler James Ford, who opens the Gwenn won an Academy Award hours of the day, and oven after the and good sick leave

shut, studying and tra- If they wish they can walk out of gates in the morning to let in the for playing Santa Claus in "Mira-

State gates are

he occasions takes much of the job when they like, but if they visitors. On

cle on 34th Street." The studio ditional ceremony

do they cannot nsic for it back. The carries the ceremonial axe which hopes Kellaway, twice a nominee, their time.

so great a part at the execu- will do the same next year. Player biggest demand on their talents

tion of the past. It was not used that they know their history and tion

for the actual talk about it. It they do not for

themselves, executions can on arrival, they soon learn by start- Ing at the Middle Tower, which in fact is the most exterior one, and working inwards.

Behind Tower Green, where the ravens hop about unconcerned at the stares of foreign eyes, the doors of the medical officer's and chap- lain's houses have just been painted bright green and orange because

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Drowned villages will be changed into super lido

by FRAHE-GOLDSWORTHY

TRANSFORMATION scene which will give the South of England an inland lake larger than Windermere is..being planned to end the danger of droughts.

Today maybe you will find Bob the Middle Tower. Furman at Tomorrow possibly Henry Johns. They all have to answer the same sort

of queries. Furman was re- rimental sergeant major Middlesex Regiment and has been a Beefeater for 21 years, Johns was

Thu

chauns what Santa Claus."

Gwenn has been to

A

Kellaway, who is half Irish and

but was carried through the streets has a little of Killarney in his talk, of London to and from the trials. plays his leprechaun stooped over

if on the return journey the blade with knees sagging. was turned away from the prisoner the people knew the verdict was Nat Guilty. If turned towards him, all know his fate.

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EARS ENLARGED

been

"I've

suffering from charley horse ever since the plcture started," he said.

Ho wears elf shoes flut turn up ITTLE shatters, the age-old tra- at the toes, a dirty green vest and ditions of the Tower. There was baggy trousers, a rumpled peaked In the one occasion when the Keys core-hat and a stringy artist's tic. The a company-sergeant-major Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry mony was not completed. That was make-up men. have enlarged his before becoming a captain in the in 1940, when the canteen caught cars. Indian Army. He has been at the fire and the heat was too great to Tower two years. Three or four of let the party pass. The same year the Warders are ex-officers, but they a high explosive blew the men of key's, I'm afraki," he said, "but I must have reached warrant officer their feet, but they picked them- prefer to say they're gnome-like, or rank first. When not on a particular selves up and carried on. post to answer questions, they are conducting parties of 40 or 50 on taur,

and THERE is not much to say about

Five

iwo

churches schools, and

two

that Middle Tower but so many

the

"They look a little like a don--

elfish."

The Warders will still relate in Kellaway made many visits-to bated breath of the time in 1871 Ireland as an actor before he started

in the movies eight years ago.

"I regret to confess I've never

Two villages will vanish completely beneath

when Colonel Blood, dressed as a 55,000,000,000 gallons of Thames, water, pumped

parson, got beyond the gate withi ten miles uphill to the chosen site. It is 12

the Crown and Orb before being miles southwest of Reading, 50 miles from

captured, and subsequently awarded seen a leprechaun," he said, "But I belleve in them, anyway. I'm trying. London. Villages which sur-

pension by a past king.

to do a good job because I wouldn't vive the flood will become boom drowned.

chapels,

Besides their pay the Warders get want them to put a curse on me." resorts on the banks of a village inns will have to be aban-people point to that large modernish 15, 20. a day pension, ordered by the

building outside the walls that Duke of Wellington. They receive And If any leprechaun read this, super boating, bathing, and doned

At Ashford 1, the Ship Inn Colonel E. H. Carkeet-James, sailing lido, flanked by wood-

how big they are-United. land walks and bird sanctuaries. will be 70ft. below the surface, and Major and Resident Governor, has £10 a year clothing allowance, and he hopes they'll write in and tell

now had its particulars entered into tips are pooled and shared equally. him Rural councillors at Kingsclere, in worshippers will need a causeway

the History of the Tower which he They get one free day a week and have Press.. the to reach the village church on its

himself wrote for the Warders. their own social canteen. The bar Hampshire-not yet let into Metropolitan Water Board's secret hilltop island.

They have their own To the Water Board the proposed "That place", Furman will tell you profits are invested as a nest-egg for flood plon-will meet soon to dis- cuss the rumoured threat to homes plan to largely an engineering while he twiddles his sergeant each man.

the problem. Monster conduits will be majer's moustache with a finger and ullotments in the most. and farms and

needed to shunt water into the Eu- thumb, "is Enbome valley.

borne siding, there to remain as Authority. The green patch below ponsibility is Colonel Carkett-James. it is Trinity Green on Great Tower His wartime job was briefing war Said council clerk F. A. B. Keates: nine square miles of water behind a "At Ashford till all 12 houses now 100ft, dam a quarter of a mile long Hill where 75 public executions took correspondents at SHAEF headquar

If the level of the Thames falis place." being built are below the proposed At Headley we are water level. building 18 houses, Some will be wholly Bubmerged, some partly,

lake shore.. others will be on the And at Wolverton six cottages are being bullt. They will be dry, but the farms on which some of the tenants were to work will appear."

churches in

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the Port of London

The man with the greatest res

ters, and he now briefs the Warders in a drought year, the water will

Your mind floats back to that on their history. Almost daily he be shunted into the river again tohistory lesson at school: "That was carries out lightning quizzes. feed London's reservoirs.

where Mary Queen of Scots lost her head?"

THEAY

Jo-Jo

COMIC

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You!

think

He has to keep an eye on

the Jewels, which are often visited by as many as 20,000 people a day. Ho also has to watch the ravens to see that they keep well.

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Robert cocks one eye at you. "Sir, Everything will be done to make Mary Queen of Scots had no connec the new lake healthy and attraction with the Tower," tive.

Hundreds of acres of wood-

Tradition has it that if one dics land

will be stripped and farms

again. "No? Then bulldozed

prevent decaying where did she die?" The question there will be a murder or a suicide. vegetation clouding the water. does not fox Robert, although the Last year there was a murder. Ono The same waters will drive 1,400 How soon? The need is urgent. History of the Tower does not an- bird was found minus its head. For Guards sergeant and people from their homes and many Privately the engineers are saying awer that one. "She died at Fother- a fortnight a from their livelihood. Along the that flooding might begin in 1058 ingay Castic," he says and before seven men kept watch on the re- bed of the valley and on its lower But workmen will be dooding in you have time to ask him, he adds mainder throughout the night. The

1587

mystery was never solved. slopes some 100 buildings will be much sooner.

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