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Harry Truman's inauguration as President of the United States is described by a man who-with Harry the Horse in the old hangout of Damon Runyon—saw it by television

HARRY TRUMAN RIDES IN ON A 'QUAKE?

BY FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK.

AM. one of the several millions of people here who saw President Truman inaugurated for his second term without the bother of travelling 250 miles down to Washington on the off chance of finding a street corner. with a view.

I was

I watched it all-or at least that is what I think watching-perched on

a stool

ол

beside the bar in Damon Run- yon's old hangout, Mindys Broadway.

Harry the Horse was there, So too, lugubrious as ever. were Little Isidore, Big Nig and all the rest of the Broadway characters-enough of them at all events for Clancy the Cop from the corner of 53rd Street to keep strolling in just to see if all went well.

It was an instructive day. But one had to drink an awful lot of beer to justify one's place by the television set.

And it seems now as though I missed the earthquake that ap parently shattered Washington while the parade was going on.

"A TINY MAN ..in what looks like a

silk hai

.

The announcers voice goes fran- lic. "Here he comes," he yells up parently on the point .et apoplexy

"President Harry Chief Magistrate

5. Truman, of the United

States of America. The President There he is! Look! The President

in

In person!"

We all look.

for away Sure enough

the distance on the still madiy jigging Pennsylvania Avenue a minute car

19 Aceti.

In it, a tiny man in what looks like a silk hat.

Slowly into view, shivering with the worst case of ague anybody here has ever seen, comes a caval- cade of cars.

of

William Hickey

Under the spreading B.B.C. The village smithy stands.

NOT QUITE true

but almost.

men and women got muddled over their last wills and testaments.

Costilest mistake: by philan- thropist CALEB DIPLOCK. He 'left £203,000 to "charitable or

benevolent Institutions."

That single word "or" made the For the B.B.C., like Hitler, in whate thing invalid-and the reluctant to make its last ter- hospitals which received the money ritorial demand." It illustrates had to pay it back. once again the safe rule that

Government departments and WHO please, can find that

woman

monopolies like a lot of room to hard-shelled, soft-centred

to dispense wisdom .and wise- spread in.

At some

The West

distant date the sacks in British Alms? whole B.B.C. organisation is to End stage, at a pinch, can produce a couple of little acid drops move into two buildings yet un-

tob help along those Inlimite .revuo built-one next door to Broad-

moments casting House and one at Shep- herd's Bush-and then presum- ably the scattered staffs will be heading for the last round-up.

But for the present the con- glomeration of entertainers, and` engineers, singers and steno- graphers, musicians. and main- tenance men, control the air waves from about thirty dif ferent points around London.

when

the two HER- MIONES get their bered teell into

ME L ALAN VILLE'S lines.

But

Hollywood

has always had few tougher type fcntales on hund. The slick alangin; matches used to be won rearly by

Eve Arden OLENDA FAR- Shops, houses, flats, office

RELL and JOAN blocks, concert halls, cinomas, a

BLONDELL. Then came INA school, a chapel, a mission hall. CLAIRE. But for the last few and a skating rink are all roped

years there has been only into the net.

Mas EVE ARDEN. NOEL JOHNSTON, now say- Eve is that fall, fair (this type always blondel) sophisil- ing good-bye to DICK BARTON, is

cated young woman who strides into also says good-bye to the old the scene, hisses the best line in the Grafton Theatre in Tottenham script from the corner of her droop- Courtroad. where most of The ing mouth which isn't occupied with Special Agent's activities were the long cigarette-holder and steals

the picture. handled.

She is chic and smooth-drips WATERLOGGED SPA and mink with the casual air of MUCH - BINDING - IN - THE woman who has a chinchilla MARSH are really the same cold storage.

Cinema place the Paris

But underneath it all there in

that

a

Lower Regent-street, which on the less wise glamour gels

familiar heart of gold.

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When meet

Saturday nights becomes the trouble Evé is there. RITA GOLDEN SLIPPER CLUB. HAYWORTH, VIRGINIA MAYO, SANDY MACPHERSON YVONNE DE CARLO have all used dressed Arden. beautifully shoulder to

to ery on in at least one spends his Twilight Hour in the the

alm. Forever cool and poised, she loneliness of the solitary studio In the Jubilee Chapel at Hoxton, offers words of comfort in epigrams, in the Is there an Eve Arden N. Sound reason: they keep the

house in Britain? theatre organ there.

Margaret Lockwood picture "Look The slow ripening of those Before You Love" has been released. subtle dance band melodies may In it a tall, fair, sophisticated young be coming anywhere from the woman named PHYLLIS STANLEY

old skating rink in Delaware- appears.

Miss Stanley is very .much the rond. W.9, to the Eolian Hall

FRANCIS Stanley's lips can droop producer (where

BBC

Marching along by the side them a battalion of men who ap- parently represent the Ku-Klux- Klan since they are all in snowy WORSLEY has his office)-or white nightshirts.

Now they look like under- Iakers it changed into black while I wasn't looking.

even from the old Pop Cafe in Piccadilly.

Eve Arden type in looks. Miss the

in right way. Her long-legged stride dancer) can sweep (she used to be her across sets in the Arden manner. At 33-married 10 American STEPHEN MILLAR, and mother of seven-year-old daughter-Mina

has no Stanley

wish to be a film. star.

She is an ex-Cochran young lady who was probably the first girl to crinoline

a

Since inst June the news has been do a strip-tease from a

base. Her chance to play straight read from Egton Houre-opposite dra

drawing room comedy collapsed Some guns in the park along the the main B.L.C. building. The camera points, way are popping off puffs of cot-announcers rench it by an under the was rehearsing for a new play, when Marie Tempest, with whom tony smoke.

The excited young man has vanished. Now the the world spins. straight up. Over and over and over

The blimp is steady

ground tunnel which once was air-raid shelter.

And every night the B.B.C.

dled.

we

"But I would so like to be the

takes

feature player of British Alms, collects the

top dozen or es and cou

she

think says. "I don't so Portuguese and Spaniards from ant

New Yorker Edgware Station

the actually want tho who run

in British films-but Latin-American_services-from

an character

witty Al-our-own-equivalent-of-the- exclusive old country club at

girl about town in Mayfair." Herts.

Perhaps busy-bees NOEL To the

Corporation's personnel

GAN could spare a Utle an office part of

One's stomach feels slightly out of gear as when the train along-

No sound comes out of them, or own has almost elde which one's A bottle to start

it it does we cannot hear it for the stopped speeds up again and onc

volce-of- that-announcer. When the programme started it seems to be reeling backwards."

He isn't reciting dates any more High up in the sky was bewildering for a time. It all

a fleet or Now he is listing the names of all denham, began with a very large but indis coal-black aeroplanes moves un- the people in the cars as they pass elect picture of a bottle of laxative, steadily against a sky of glittering full semes, full middle initials, the most important place of all is LANGLEY or TERENCE RATTI.

smoothly nasal

was chalky white. They Bob in unison full military rank. anying: "Mothers, when you seek a like marionettes, until the camera- At this distance we cannot tell a Charterhouse-street, E. C. There sit building her up into the laxative for your sick child what man has brought himself back on full admiral from a Boy Scout, but the Wages Dept., counting out the woman that every film-goer loves.

money. They overlook the he is probably right. do you do? Do you take the first to an even keel

The world reels again. Back into Market. thing that is offered? No! Nothing but the best will do for your child.

change another the sky po our eyes. There is a Now they are nice shiny navy blimp going over THE TURF So follow the example of this, wise

glaring white, and It is the sky young mother."

that is a sulky velvet black.

Λ

voice

Then camera shot of n slinky

woman young

telephoning the corner drugstore, asking in an on- xlous tone: "There is nothing bet- ter is there thon So-and-so's Inxs- tive for my sick child?"

Next a sliot of the drugstore with a glittering array of clearly inferior astute which the laxatives from druggist unhesitatingly picks a bot- tle of So-and-so's and waves it in our faces with a satisfied smirk.

Then unaccountably some police- men's legs, slightly aweave, and there we are on a street corner in distant Washington listening to excited young man trying to something intelligible out of two ferrifted urchins, shot violently into our range of vision by an unseen hand.

Terrifies More

n

Suddenly they queasy moment.

at a steady 20 miles an hour.

The camera likes this blimp and stays with it for eight minutes by The announcer

talking the clock. goes on He has described every non-stop. thing in sight, pointed out the flags and the crowds, and named streets and buildings.

the

Now he is reeling off some auec dotes about Jefferson, and Madison, and Theodore Roosevelt.

block in

Meat

Mr.

of the basement of their sumptuous

As

time on type

up.

the meeting WAD had A stand-in

ANTHONY FELL 19 young man in a hurry-to get into Parliament.

Tory candidato hin Club

he dented the Sociolist majority at of been having property problems

different kind.

Brigg last March, is now going to Breaking all traditions (founded fight for Hammersmith South-the 1805) the members decided that only man to make two shots to be- It is the only steady influence in these hard times justifted raising a come an M.P. within the past year.

world fast shaking to pleees.

But his record slipped the other the cavalcade it'le extra money by letting off portu In the meantime

Billed to speak before has moved on. The earthquake is Flecadilly premises as a shop.

Young

Tories In the City of London, apparently sill going on full blast

After the expected opposition the he arrived as when we get back to the Capitol where some ceremony seems to be proposal was carried, and a rent of breaking

spoke for him.. taking place, roughly 30 miles away £1,000 a year was fixed.

It was then that the Gentlemen

against the IT

has been a week of harsh. of the Turt came up department of that well-known Town

EVELYN WAUGHI finds himself' and Country Planner, Mr. LEWIS words among the artists. BILKIN.

"looking the Property described in America as They learned that Development Charges imposed by lee an indignant White Leghorn.

Poet JOHN

OHN BETJEMAN, asked by

from.. the State would swallow up all the prot to be obtained from letting

Deol abandoned. their basement.

Thus respectability triumphed over vulgar trade.

He switches to a distance shot of Capitol Hill, extremely distant, at looks. least 10 miles away it looks.

So

Big Nig finishes his beer. "I feel There is the familler dome and sensick," he says forthrightly. the long wide aweep of Pennsyl- in I though I don't say so out loud. vania Avenue. an

Ket

television At that moment the

Tho Capitol "earthquake" strikes. stangers. It shudders and shakes and seems about to fall.

A Scotch-to end

Scotch,

the other

slide off my stool. A Broad-

a group of would-be writers Oxford what to do for a living until way showgirl with last night's Elides into my Spectators and photographers up makeup still on

their books began to sell, gave this advice: "Get a job an a.stationmaster · there in the trees wave madly in place.

where there's one train a day." round the air, thrown wildly from side to Deliberately she spin it

MICHAEL LEWIS, son of SIN- until her back is toward the making AROUND

LEWIS side. Then everything goes dark. At 2.30, 5.20,

បទ

and. Chancery CLAIR

DOROTHY Into their completely blank ces

Chanting on tn the blackness is of history.

the THOMPSON, is in London study- day-after ," she says briefly. "I need Court he thrusts. microphone, which the reassuring volce of that young

He has some 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. clearly terrifies them more. One announcer: Nothing fades him. Now it after watching that thing." Socialist Party had lost the fight ing to be an actor.

cries. Suddenly a blinding light. The he is reeling off names of Prost- I walked out none too steadily to keep £120,000 loft them in the cold words to say about London- "Cramped, cheerless--but condu- world disintegrates into a shivering dents long dead, some dates of noth myself. It wasn't what I had been will of ROBERT ADDY HOPKIN-

In American history.

forced to Imbibe to see the biggest 80N-they were saying: "Where cive in atmosphere to studying the "That's

refcigerator," the

says "Gimme a

there's a will there's always a way gloomier aspects of Hamlot." beer, grunts Harry television broadcast of all time.

out of it".

Its fellow students in turn look. Little Isidore confidently. "Re- the Horse suddenly. The barman, am sure of that. frigerator? Nuts!" growls Big Nig, looke threatening at the rest of us. For the earth tremors stopped the In the past year legacies worth forward to hearing his Main-street. "That is Clancy starting the patrol So we all' say?: MC, too. Samo moment I stepped outside. Brond- £400.000 falled to reach the right accent declaiming: "Ta be er narta: car outside."

bank balances because half a dozen be." way was just the same as usual,"

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