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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948.

CANTERBURY PUTS OUT THE FLAGS

ANTERBURY, mother

city of .the English- speaking race, birthplace in

of the Christian faith Southern England, famous mili- and kome of tory centre Kentish cricket. has just been with celebrating

colourful pageantry, military displays

and light-hearted sporting fes- tivals, several more landmarks in her long and often turbulent history,

The mother city of the English-speaking. race has been celebrating its 500th. anniversary as Mayoralty

the

Injury, old favourites such as Brian Valentine, Jack Davies and Arthur Fogg were seen at their vintage best, and a bright new star appeared. This was young Crush, who won the Military Cross in World War Two- with ine upstanding batsman n leaning for mighty sixes and mean fast-medium bowler, as โปโล eleven Hampshire wickets testify,

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ties between the city and the Buffs, whose 2nd Battalion is now in Hongkong, were strengthened when

the Regiment were given the Freedom of the city.

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Mention of cricket automatically leads to the Old Stagers, whose pos- lers announcing to the "Nobility, the Gentry and the Public" that they were giving nightly theatricals In the Buffs Cavalry Theatre were again in evidence.

Their performances have been linked closely with the festival since

By PETER LOVEGROVE

gence at Ninth Army Headquarters in the Lebanese hills above Betrui. The O.S., by the way, have never had a theatre their own, but the Corporation are planning to build a suitable building which will bo- come their permanent home.

The relebrations concluded with a strengthening of the ties between the City and the Buffs, a regiment which dates its origin to the Train- ed Bands of the City of London In 1872. At an impressive ceremony at the New Infantry Barracks,

Colonel-in-Chief, King which the Frederick of Denmark, was ropre- sented by his cousin. Prince George, the Mayor conferred the honorary Freedom of Canterbury on the Re- giment.

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Major-General P. G. Scarlett, the Colonel of the Regiment, who ac- cepted the freedom scroll on its be- half, stated that this was not only

They

"Not a bad moka. Tru one-this alde Indian, thia alde China !"

PERFUMES CAN'T TRAP MEN

By Michael O'Neill, Jr

During the first week in August, the citizens of this an cient borough and County commemorated 500 years of their Mayoralty granted under a charter by Henry VI, the centenary of the most famous cricket festival in the world

the lovely St Lawrence "for ever." and she claimed

ed to Canterbury by royal charter its earliest days, and were original bestos but a great acte ch could MAURICE Talmage, who has been on

the ly designed to encourage visitors to a grent act of friendship

enneneling devastating perfumes recognition of their services. for 25 years, anys a man can't be retain the unique Old right to

the statue of n spend the whole week in Canter and ground and

looked upon Canterbury in itself and county bury. Crickets and amateur actor-

si trapped by scent if he is unwilling. Stagers' theatricals, and wound county

same were both-used to travel by their home, physiently and spiritual- borough.

"We've been trying for years and up the memorable celebrations

cricket steamer from London to Ramsgate There was much talk of

ly, and on the regiment, past and years to develop a perfume that will by conferring the Freedom of top, for the greatest of all summer and thence by coach to the Foun- present, as one large and devoted make men fall in love at first sniff."

family. cric- tain Inn. Statesmen, County their City on the Buffs (the games and Canterbury are synony-

he said, "but our best efforts have keters, lawyers, soldiers and even n

been in vain." Royal East Kent Regiment), mous.

Speaker of the House of Commons whose fortunes have been

Other towns have their Test' have been Old Stagers through the bound up with the Cathedral matches and the grimness of local years, as well as lending professional City ever since 1782.

derbles; other grounds are older or have a beauty all their own, but for Though much battered in World the past hundred years Canterbury War Two, when I was the target has had the St Lawrence

Kround *** turf. Impressive of a savage "Baedecker" raid, Can- with its perfect

graceful trees, boundarles lined with tents on terbury put on her most attire for the great occasion. There which famous banners fly, and the which is the were garlands and window-boxes of light-hearted sport flowers and bunting everywhere very essence of Kentish cricket. utong the picturesque Mereorie Lane, down which have trodden centuries of travel-solled

pilgrims

Bright New Star

in-

on their last stage to the shrine Thomas-n-Berket, in The narrow THE war did not pass the St Law

rence by, Three hundred mediaeval streets, on the ancient

there, bui dek. cendiarles fell

damage brick, hostelries of weather-beaten and mullioned windows, by the war negligible, and Service sides games gabled half-timber houses, paddling played a record number of

the waters of the Stour there. The ground also had In the quiet

Walloons and toned in

dubious distinction of being mẹn- since the persecuted

Goebbets' press. which Huguenots set up their weaving- looms there: along the overhanging imagination: "Club members, armed observed with its customary fertile storeys and curious Tudor frontages, m and in a number of byways which to the teeth, patrol the pitch, night-

hedges, not Goering's Luftwaffe

ly, peering into

for happily over-

parachutists but for looked.

the advance Auard of Sixth Column Plutocrats."

This year's festival angintained its standard. carefree

Cathedral, Floodlit traditionally

a

VEN in the blitzed areas, the wild

flowers and shrubbery made brave attempt to keep in touch with the rest of the town by covering up the recent rears and adding splashes of colour here and there.

enhanced At night, floodlighting the beauty of the great Cathedral,

VIII% the Mint Yard of Henry King's School, the splendour of the Tower House gardens, resplendent with snapdragons, and even the 1 squat, grim-looking Westgate, bas- tion of ancient security and targest surviving city rate in England.

A. Searchlight Regiment,

the

actresses.

Productions always reach a high standard of entertainment. The Arst performance used to open with an original prologue delivered by an actor

aud in beaver int

white liten-the cricketer's uniform the day and the last close with prologue in the same vein.

of

Nowadays, only the latter hns has become been retained, but it

and

a more elaborate affair, with witty often irreverent songs and dinlogue prepared during the Week, with a finale in which the Spirits of Kent, 1. Zingari and O.S. with their respective banner-bearers participate. Women shoppers, bar- row boys, Australian cricketers, the Ministries (Inevitably) toughness of chops were the jects of the barbed shafts this time.

and

the ob-

Plays produced were J. B. Priest- ley's "Dangerous

Noel Corner," Coward's "Still Life" and Sheridan's "Critic." Sheridan's wit has always been a great favourite with the O.S.; Indeed, they started their long career with his "Rivals."

Hampshire met with their usual fate in a match earmarked for the benent of Legile Ames. wartime squadron-leader and greatest of all the batsman-wicketkeeper between

while Nottinghamshire two wars, got the worst of n drawn match.

Star of the week was Lt Col. Sir - which was interfered with by rain, Giles Ishim, well-known Shake-

Though Douglas Wright, with his spearean actor between the kangaroo-ke run sind inspired who served in the 60th Rifles and bowling spells, was absent through whom I last saw dispensing Intelli

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By J.

wars,

Proud

Record

Talmage suggested delicately that one of the major stumbling blocks has been the fart that modern males

FEW regiments in our Army can just don't have a good sense of

claim more honourable service in, smell. the, field. The Buffs have fought in Even the most tantalising aroma the Law Countries, shared in the | is powerless, he said, unless & man of Blenheim, Ramilles, is more than casually interested in victorles Oudenarde and Malpinquet, took a girl, in the first place. At best, part lu nearly all the major Penin- perfumes just assist in romance, ke sula battles under Wellington, have said. seen active service in India, the

Women have been dabbing them- Crimea. China, the Malay States. selve with perfume ever since and the Zulu and South African Cleopatra wore 18 scented nils in Wars in World War One; no less her hair. than eight battalions served Innerfumes every year. France, Indlta. Mesopotamia Solonica and Palestine, and some 6,000 Buffs laid down their lives.

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They spend millions for

WOMEN KNOW LITTLE "Women buy perfumes to make themselves attractive to men." Tal- in World War Two, the men with mage scid. "But the funny thing. In the Tudor Dragon badge earned un- they're so interested in pretty bot- tying fame at Alem Hamza in the tles and exotic nomes they're rarely Western Desert when they desisled, aware of how attractive or unattrac- literally to the last man, an over- tive a perfume actually may

be." whelming German tank aftack. They Putting it bluntly. Talmage were at Alamein, in Burma, inclared women knew little about per- France, North Affien, Malta and fumes, and men a great deal less. Leros, and for the Normandy in- There isn't one woman in a thousand vasion their 7th Battalion became the who can tell, the difference between 141st Regiment R.A.C. Their second her favourite perfume and another battalion is now stationed in Hong-similar brand, he said. long.

service of remembrance

The ceremony was followed by n for fallen Buffs in thin Cathedral, lo which serving members of the regiment marched through the streets with fixed bayonets, exercising for the first time a privilege conferred by the Freedom. Some 2,000 old com- rades attended the service.

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There are thousands of brands' to choose frem, Talmage sald. The bottles came in all sizes, shapes and colours and. Talmage odmitted, the names are "simply fantastic."

"But none of those things really counts." he said. "Women should choose perfumes by how they smell and nothing else. And then they should apply them very sparingly."

MAKING OF CHILDREN'S FILMS

Clifford King

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Chil-

There were celebration dances, "all the fun of the fair" and side-

A story was written about a boy shows, Lord George Sanger's circus,

called Tom who longed to possess

A story on the screen becomes displays and exhibitions (including

a bicycle and who was on his way one by the Bat and Trap League,

more real and children are very to the cinema with his sister. She family In 17th century costumes),

STEADY stream of on the films. In such cases, how-

hnd

he

critical: they will not tolerate any- a bicycle; but, of course, sports and races. A military dis-

thing ever. other factors have to be con- would not ride on the step of her

untrue to life or long dis- story manuscripts most play by the Royal West Kents and

sidered-home conditions, poverty, machine because that was something cussions and are dored by sentimen- of them entirely The 1st (Blazers) Battery of

un- lack of proper parental control on the police particularly ask children tality. Stories must be fold in ple- ̈14th Field Regiment, R. A. "ended "sultable, arrives at the London-disharmony in the family, Offences

not to do. He is walking along. Then they are impressive.

-with-quick-moving action. with a beating of the retreat under headquarters of Children's which are directly traceable to the with her, she pushing her blcycle en like seeing the same characters. artificial moonlight provided by T.Entertainment Films, the or

child's seeing some film or other when they see, in a shop window, the number

are few in comparison with the vast ganisation which makes

a bicycle for sale which is ideal for and series have been made, par- of films released. Most Tom. It cost five pounds however, ticularly comedies which re-intro- Highlight of the civic celebrationsfilms which are shown at the children have a keenly developed and Ton knows that his father duce the slapstlek element so popul- was a thanksgiving service at the

Jar in the silent film days. 'Children's cinema clubs in sense of right and wrong,

cannot afford to buy it. for him. On Cathedral. It was attended by

their way home from the cinema Aldermno Mrs Evelyn M

Saturday Hows, Britain

every

the boy finds a wallet containing Canterbury's second woman Mayor, morning. For preparing a all the leaders

exactly five pounds. life children's film story is hedged of civic in the borough und 22 other Mayors and Town Clerks of Kent with their about with difficulties; not all Sergeants-ul-Mace resplendent Inof which are foreseen by their colourful robes and uniformas, regolia | writers. and varied symbols There was an air of

nt authority, medieval

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Tom rushes through and the flow of the Niagara Falls.

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But children do identify them- selves with characters In filma. It in only necessary to go to one the Saturday morning shows watch the children in the audience At first he is tempted to keep the FILMS for the children's clubs have nad hear them cheering the hero money but is persuaded by his been made all over the world, and booing the villain to realise sister to take it to the police station in Rhodesia, Australia and Canada

where they find it has been lost by as well as in Britain. how completely they can be absor

"The Boy Suggestions for stories to he bed in a film story. And accidents poor woman who has gone to catch Who Stopped Niagara," which was pageantry about the procession as,

come in 100. Hundreds happen. A child, was killed recent- a train to visit her soldier son in made in Canada recently, was ret in motion by the sounding of the fikned

orn. of people have suggested making ly emulating the feats of a tight hospital. Borrowing his sister's fantasy about a boy who "dreamed" thirteenth-century Burghmote Horn,

Crusoe. which

"Robinson

rope walker in a circus Mm. used

bicycle

the he pulled a switch which stopped 10 suminoa mum-

this

railway streets to the bers of the City Council to

As a novel, meet- But,

10. be treated

nrrives just as the woman has dis- the electricity was cut off: lifts, ings, it slowly made its way through book cannot begin the main streets to and from

the as Aím materjal. Crusoe

covered her loss and decided she electric trains and trams stopped, was Guildhall. When

will have to miss the train which water was not heated for the baby's wrecked the procession

Island, an building a

is steaming into the station.

bath, father's dinner could not be years bu entered the precincts of the Cathe-

cooked and his electric razor stopped dral through The ornate Christ and three building a boat which, THESE are things which makers of

films for children

in the middle of his morning shave. Church Gateway, the City's maces when finished, was too heavy to move and 16th century sword of state and had to be started all over again very carefully, Something seen It was not much of a story and The town, as can be imagined, was were Inwered in taken of old feuds, nearer to the shore. After some makes

chiosi He had to dream' a far greater Impression ane intelligent boy discovered its in and bloodshed between church and time he met the other character on than something read or explained weakness, writing to say that it was story, of course; because elly offletais.

the island, native whom he chris- by a teacher.

silly of Tem to think of stealing the might be a boy somewhere tened "Man Friday" but neither

money to buy a bleycle because his really would pull a switch to see could understand the other as they

father would be bound to ask him what happened! spoke different languages. Plainly,

where the money came from. this could not do af all,

Quaint Traditions

seven

on

spent

house

T the luncheon in King's School | A which followed the service, the

In working out n story which speeches did not deal only with will have possibilities in the cinema usages and quaint traditions of other problems must be taken into bygone яC. Mrs News stressed

censideration such as the effect the that with H population of only story might have upon the“, im- 25,000, Canterbury stood to lose some of the powers now held by 'he pressionable child mind. Corporation, if the suggestions of

the Boundary Commission on the Cases of delinquency have been organisation of local government be heard in our juvenile courts in which come law. This local self-govern- the young offender has claimed he ment, she asserted, had been grant- was copying something he had seen

must watch

The very first film made specially for children in Britain proTM vides an interesling example of this. It was made during the war when school life was disorganised, class- rocins overcrowded, fathers in the Services and mothers working in the factories...

Petty thefts in the cinemas had been Increasing. It was proposed that n. short flm be made for showing to children to persuade them that stealing by finding was as bad as any other sort of stealing,

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who

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The sentimental story, here moves quickly; there is plenty of excite- But, after its showing, cinema ment: the chief characters managers' offices became unusable children with whom the audience as offices and became storerooms finds it easy to identify itself; and, for lost properly. Every Saturday incidentally, a deal of instructive morning children arrived with information about the working of something or other they had found hydro-electric generators is .con--

veyed in a most palatable form:

In fact these are the qualities- kist action, child character, in- sentimentally and incidental in- struction-which go to make every good children's film,

Since those days Children's En- tertainment Films have made many Alms-not flims with a moral like the first one, but simply entertain- ment,

up.

TO-MORROW

NANCY

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