Evening star., 1937-05-10
Coronation
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red and yellow, according to their rank
with white breeches, white silk stock.
ing and gold epaulets on their shoul.
ders.
Thirty chefs and their assistants will
prepare the food in the palace
kitchens.
Approximately 100000 coronation
visitors piled pell-mell into London
today, from European countries, from
the United States, and from far dis.
tant parts of the British Empire.
They invaded the decorated streets
swarmed into the lobbies of hotel
and boarding houses and gave porters
| tralnmen and taxi drivers one of the
most hectic days in their lives.
The crowds gave London railway
terminals the general aspect of {
madhouse as they shrilled. coaxed
demanded and threatened. They los,
their luggage and got lost amidst theil
| luggage, but went straightway to worh
to enjoy themselves.
1t was coronation cavalcade, nom
stop style, with London on the side.
lines. 1t was tourist bombshell, a
see-the-World stick of dynamite. g
human thunderstorm that shook the
Tower Of London.
At Southampton more than 200, ,O0C
tons of passenger shipping was along
side docks today to put 10000 visitors
from the United States and Canada
on English soil.
Thousands of extra porters anc
customs officials were on duty and
scenes of confusion unrivaled in tour.
ist travel were enacted.
The King and the Queen unexpect-
edly went to the abbey this afternoon
for another rehearsal Of their roles.
George vi, in bowler hat and black
coat, shook hands on the Westminster
steps with the Duke of Norfolk, young
earl marshal. Queen Elizabeth wore
a long dove gray coat and wide
brimmed gray straw. She smiled and
waved to cheering crowd.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
bare-headed, walked to the abbey just
before their majesties arrived.
At the morning rehearsal the young
Duke of Norfolk was crowned with
a pasteboard imitation as under
study to his monarch in a final make
believe" ceremony in Westminster
Abbey that brought to a close the
months of careful preparation for the
coronation Wednesday of King
George vi.
Vast crowds milled about in cold
rain and gloomy fog, while in the
vaulted interior of the stately abbey
the characters who will play all but
the two most prominent parts in the
ceremony moved about and spoke their
lines as in play.
Days of Sunshine End.
The steady drizzle that brought an
end to days of unseasonal sunshine
failed to daunt the jostling, good-na-
tured throngs jamming London to Ca
pacity for the final act in the great
drama of empire.
The poor, unable to pay the prices
for Wednesdays big show, sought
vicarious thrills in the last-minute
check-ups that gave them a previev
OF the trappings of royalty and the
court, although the central figures
were absent
They huddled under newspapers
and sodden blankets and stamped the
blood back into their clammy feet,
Special trains from the provinces
hourly brought more and more per.
sons to swell the already overcrowdec
metropolis threatened with the spread
OF a strike of busmen to include
street car and subway workers, thai
might tie up all transportation ia.
cilltles during the empire show.
Strike May Spread.
Members of the Central Committee
for the 5000 striking bus drivers ane
conductors predicted the, walkou,
might spread through the allied or.
| SdILLdLlOLS, as Lne SCr1Ke appeared
little nearer q settlement.
Week end meetings failed to brint
an end appreciably nearer, although
strenuous efforts were being made t.
have the familiar red buses runninf
on schedule before the coronation.
But while the masses jokinel,
pushed and showed their way Through
the disorder the coronation crowd
have made Of London's historic thor
oughfares, within the Abbey all wa.
ordered and dignifed.
| 1t was q complete rehearsal, eve,
to the crowning with imitation crowns
Archbishop Presides.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, pri
mate Of all England, who will plac,
st. Edwards crown-the Crown O
England-on King Georges head
placed the cardboard imitation O,
Norfolk, seated in King Edward
chair.
BY his side, understudy for he
friend, Queen Elizabeth, was Lad,
Rachel Howard, 3l-year-old sister o
the youthful earl marshal.
Music from orchestra and chot
swelled through the abbey, dvindlet
awav and euAl1ad ao~in y11i&to.,