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THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1949.

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QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

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Romeo and Juliet

with JOHN BARRYMORE

- BASIE RATHBONE : ANDY DEVINE

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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS

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--World Copyright: Dy ofrangement with Evening Standard

This Astonishing New York

SURE,WE GROUSE

New York.

USTERITY over hero

by C. V. R.

is just a word used Thompson

about mothers-in- law. Far from upping the price of chidren's lunches, cept possibly a New York is giving them an extra red apple free be- cause of too bountiful a harvest.

Here, where the dollars come from, the dust carts nro gleaming silver and are filled

show call- ed "South Pacific" and the Sadler's Wells Ballet,

You can walk in and buy any car-except a Jaguar -and drivo it nway. Whisky is available by the drink, bottle, case, or car- load. Maids make £16 a week (five days to the

overy day with lenough wasted food to chd week).

rationing in Britain.

And yet for all this, New In New York there is Yorkera grumble and nothing to queue for

ex- rumble incessantly. And this is what they grumble. ¡about.

THE FINANCES OF THE

ROYAL

S

INCE Britain

London.

decided

A

to give up her finan- cial Independence and become a dollar pensioner of the United States. growing number of Ameri- they have n right Lo criticise our in- stitutions and our

way of

cana assume

life.

The monarchy is one of the institutions they are most ready to attack. With all the ardour of convinced republicans they point to the cost of maintaining i

They examine the Civil List, upon which it is sus- Lained inancially, with something of the querulous Concern of an offeinl re. ceiver eyeing the prodiga.

ities of a bankrupt.

Even at home there are critics. Not many, certain-

well-in of

ly, and not very

FAMILY...

Sandringham

House

by JOHN PREBBLE

MARY..

ELIZABETH £40,000

QUEEN PRINCESS

DUKE OF

£70,000 considerably

to

The Baitoral

estate

There is also the

from the

EDINBURGH 210,000 come

THERE

IS considerable

The Last ligations

the monarch

"of "these

surrendered

Everyone grumbles about the subway (underground) those who pay for it (the taxpayers), those who ruin it (the underpaid drivers [and guarda), * and those ob-who ride it (the unfertun-

by

nten was the Seerni

without a car and

Service The State took over chauffeur or a good pair of the payment of that from Vic-legs). toria.

True, you can go 25 miles for It was then costing £10,000. 10 cents (8 d.), but unless you revenue to the State from Its cost today must be many do the trip at 4 h.m. you end Crown Landa, which counter times that mum. balancea the public cost of

Todny royal annuities tro royalty. The from revenue voted by Parliament, inst year was £2 million.

your journey by visiting either n 90-minute cleaners or mind without doctor, or both.

consideration of whether

Of

Crown Land revenue

These

of the feudal

Lands, relies not Crown

propertica of justifies the suma.

They are a measure of the for ita

England's king, were surren- dered, for the most part, by n Uon's esteem business deal in the Lath cen- monarchy. tury.

By this deal, and by fur- ther wurrender in later year, the monarchy gave up I right to those tands and has no claim

them pow on in fact or argument.

Ran

Move over!

THE buses are not much better. My wife assures me that a bus ride in the best cure for a girl conceited about her looks. You see, they do not have clip-

debts up WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Ples.

THACKERAY.

comment-

of George ing on the Income

who man up debts £322,000

IV..

This theons that the driver ts to open and shut the pneu- almatic doors, collect the fares, give out change, ince his pos- tnx) by n

sengers to the back of the bus, for

and dodge taxicabs all at the same time.

George 1, on his necession, owed (excluding £90,000 surrendered his hereditary boisterous

in

Income

vnthustoran POMENUNG {from royal Junca

horses, women, and oriental held

by the Stuarts, by the

architecture, said:- Tudora, Arch by the Planta-

"What did he do for all this

This has produced a vocabu- £93,000 171-

genets, from special taxes, etc.)

What had any mortal ary which becomes its most 93,000-acre in return for ta

Ruamist money?

one that he should done

n girl tries be pani- vivid purple when Duchy of Lanenster, and the annuity.

to flirt her way into a bus al- pered 207" Colte from

fle benme the GLOUCESTER £35,000 £100,000

Those questions may have tady sardine-packed. vont ROYAL, 26,000 Duchy of Cornwall, traditional-

teen

Justified In regard to I asked 20 of of the Prince State, as its

friends what my ly the revenuc

IV They certainly makes them grumble most about of Wales, but at the moment goin undertook

to pay those would never be applled by the New York. Everyone of them handed voluntarily Al Ben- officers, Judges ambasad nation

to the Coorge

DUKE OF

PRINCESS

Private fortune

THESE SUMS,

salaried SCI- of the State, and the

part of the bor-

George

the Figus aver us today. (T)

Prousty by the Kitig l the who bad previously been sle of course. Treasury.

penderi for coine do not Cover the expenses

monarch.. those who receive them,

formed ones. But sufficient fortune in addition.

Birt there is a private

of

a rebuttal to justify [their criticism by accurate

information.

Modest cost

WHAT ARE the facts? Last year

paid we the £931,503 for

pomp, pageantry, and gracious- ness of our monarchy. Not

Ita foundations

royal

Gift to Treasury

were

Juic

IT SHOULD also corded that at the end of

be

re-

121 the last century, Queen the war, the King handed to i Victoria succeeded 10 the crown of anation which, for seventy preceding yeurs, had

the Treasury, as a gift, £20,- 000 interest which he had investing £200,000 Goverrunent securities.

experienced The most expen. gained by

sive monarchy known.

Kings and had shown travagance Macaulay to profesi

But for the

a very high price in rein- tion to other national ex- penditure. And most people her long reign

Victorin will say

modest enough Queen for the advantages it modestly. brought us.

CALORIES

4500

A bad ever

B

Royal

Dukes praised,

That Anancial ex-

It was

a graciuas, generous act, for which he is to be

3000

2500

has not been his only that exelted self-denying net

Despite the heavy ex- an outburst of

of hla household, penses Busterity budgeting during the war enabled him to hand back to the Treasury £100,. 000 which he had saved from his pubile Income.

greater part of in widowhornl lived quite

Careful husbandry and semil-

Rich friends

He has the right to exemp- from tax on his private wolved but he has this right. He pays the taxes on his investmenta on the same scale as his subjects.

Free of tax

HIS PUBLIC income, paid by the nation is, of course, free of tax. It was not always

1200

a moment's who answered without

thought-bad. mannera. You see. there

are 0,000,000 people in New York, and New York of fla only 30 mulda and at its broadest only 16% miles.

---thondor- Sepress Service):

The colortes vou-need for your job and your age

"Stoke up"-or your work will suffer

longest

115

ruggle for survival,

In a struggle

there is no

Is no ume for please or

thank you, or even that warming New York

"You're of yesterday.

Even New Yorkers joke about it. Their latest is about the gizl who said manners were improv→

Sold she, ing.

"A man in the subway sat down today just to give me more room to stand,"

Of course, there is a housing shortage

York, and grumbling about

everyong

that.

New

New

Yorkers are resticas people. Before the war it was m

for everyone

custom

overy September 30.

to move

who

Now the lucky people have a place to live have had

the years.

same apartment for ten They want a change of

scenery.

Look out!

retirement from public life tion Of this деаг million over a lengthy period enabled income,

to accumulate £511,715 went in

avust for- cash her

tune. payments to members of

According ไอ the Royal Family, the

biographer Lytton Strachey, she eventual- rest towards the upkeep ly found herself a person of of royal residences. great wealth." Incidentally. these do not include Sandringham or Balmoral, which are the

When income inx was King's private property-

introduced in 1842 Victoria- and maintained by his pri- must have added greatly.

closest friends were among submitted all her Income to the richest men in Europe tux, to encourage the nation to

ACIENTISTS who have men like Sir Emost Cassel. face the terrible imposition of

ried out nutritional research day are much greater if three Department is still broke from 7d. in the £.

DEFCC on two points, which meals are taken. Edward VIL. continued the seem to condemn the "ea and practice, but, with

Chart the ne-itoast" breakfast:- of Georgo V. It was

vate fortune.

Higher bills

TO THE FORTUNE kett King Edward

she VII. Its

As they invested, so probably As their dld be.

millions

so must hls have done.

cossion

re-

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

car- The chances of doing this every

HEAR grumbles that New York's streets, far from being paved with gold, are not paved nt mil. One local newspaper is running a daily photograph of o pothole with ruler beside it to show its depth. The record so far 18.6 inches deep

Then there is grumbling over the dirt. silver dust carts, the Sanitation For all its gleaming

спива

the £2,500,000 job of clearing WHAT DID

the King

abova based

on the great snow of 1947, and (t. receive out of the total

figures given by Şir

afford to cannot Jack

tidy

up after the world's untidiest people. sum granted by the nation?

Threo meals a day make Drummond top British diet ex- Plumbers the body a more efficient pert shows the amounts of grumbling because they will not: * lot of He received £350,715 for

The annuities paid to other a million pounds members of the Royal Family, machine for doing work than energy needed daily by different come to mend a leaking tap. the support of himself.and in one day in steel.

however, are subject to income two meals. the Queen, for the salaries

but with sub- of his staff,

of his fortune at fax and surtax,

It was once published in discontinued American newspapers had made

that ho

types of people. If quotas are not supplied, health

The size

he paid £12,354 for fuel, Valuable. estates

£1,573 for telephone service,

•

there even though they and their mates get £14 a day for doing it. A man grumbles about the price of a ready-made suit (18 guineas), the sad state of boxing.. A woman grumbles about the cost of ice cream (4s. 3d. a pint), babysitters, who refuse to work unless there is a TV set, and the door-to-door salesmen, who pe ter: her with everything from nylons to frying pans.

and for the his death has never been dis- stantial and necessary allow-2 The best way of ensuring and work must suffer.

En adequate supply of expenses of his household. closed. For royal wills, of ances for expenses.

for a bout of hard The energy is given in heat Those household expenses course, are Stale secrets,

In 1923 the Premier, then energy can be heavy. Before the war

Baldwin, stated work or exercise is to take a units calories because the Mr Stanley

nourishing meal two body burns up fuel like a that 80 percent of the in light,

machine, come of the Royal Princes was hours or so before.

full effetency, railoning exempt from taxx.

streng- Today's THE PRIVATE fortune of

every needs regular stoking, thens there points. the King today includes Today Princess Elizabeth

For, with fals and proteins

to work of Edinburgh

without Like the rest of us he finds the valuable estates and forms and the Duke

a gap of 16 those bills several times higher of Balmoral, bought by Vic- are taxed on 20,000 of their restricted the only way to get than they used to be.

tora, and Sandringham, joint £59.000 annuity. Annuities paid to the rest of bought by Edward VII. Since means that their income the Royal Family are:-

ho has added percent. free of tax

and £3,592 for laundry, encli

At 2.30, 5.30. year.

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

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NANCY

CAN WE PLAY'

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NANCY 7

Hat Trick

his

accession

YES ---IF You DON'T SCRATCH

IT UP

I HAVE AN IDEA- TAKE

OFF YOUR HELMETS

For mach'ne Going breakfast means

That enough energy in Britain is to hours or so in the body's fuel is 80 cat plenty of bulky foods like supply.

bread, cereals, and

-London Expren Servicë)

potatoes.

By Ernie Bushmiller

My own pet grumble-Now Yorkers grumble too much,..

--(London Express Servico);

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