Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
CORONAT|ONR|TES
TO Be PREv|EWED
BYL0NDONT TODAY
Gay City Awaits Events Ex-
pected to Rival Actual
Ceremony.
HOLIDAY THRONGS
FILL RESTAURANTS
King and Queen Leave City for
Quiet Week End at Royal
Windsor Lodge.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.-London. splendid
with the blue, the red, the white and
the silver of bunting and flags and
bullying with the regal and commoner
visitors of an expectant world plunged
tonight into breathless celebration for
the coronation OF king
Tomorrow comes little coronation
day"-and with it a spectacle, even
to the immense crowds and a preview
OF the coronation procession that
will rival in its way the fanfare OF
next Wednesday-the real coronation
day OF George vi and his Scottish
Queen. Elizabeth.
London. sparkling with gaiety to-
night, will glow in splendor tomorrow
night. The first real test of the flood
lighting Of public buildings will IL
illuminate such landmarks as Bucking-
ham Palace, Westminster Abbey and
the Tower of London, silhouetting the
city's clustered roof tops as a back
drop for a blaze of blue white light
Holiday crowds damned restaurants
and theaters tonight. Top-hatted men
escorted women in silver fox evening
capes in the West End. while humber
throngs. many Of them visitors from
the provinces and abroad. came out
to share vigorously in celebration
they could not afford
The King and Queen left town
Tor 4 quiet week end at the Royal
Windsor Lodge, intending to rest for
the strenuous week ahead of them.
They will attend church services to-
morrow. but have made no other
engagements.
Good Show Expected.
Yet for Londoners generally the
week end promised no slack in the
whirl Of pre-coronation festivities.
They looked ahead to a good show
for many Of them the best they will
get
The final rehearsal of the corona
ton procession will be held In the
early hours and hundreds Of thousands
Of spectators are anticipated The
government grandstands-far beyond
the reach Of John Bulls poorer rela-
tons next Wednesday-will be thrown
open for "thruppence" C cents) a
seat
Coronation officials, aware OF the
dress rehearsal's significance to many
OF its witnesses, have paid special at
tention to the mounted units in order
to make it a good show.
Millions of other Londoners who
cannot hope to see the real coronation
procession Wednesday are ready to put
on a parade of their own tomorrow
through streets garlanded and deco
rated at the cost Of tens Of thousands
Of dollars.
Even in the somber workers dis
tricts in the east end. now gayly deco
rated. there are now and will be
tomorrow spirited celebrations by
pageant-loving thousands
Special. enlarged details of police
received instructions for handling the
little coronation" crowds. Stringent
precautions were ordered at railway
terminals for the still-streaming in
1iux OF foreign royalty. diplomatic
celebrities and plain SightSeers
Mounted police were assigned to
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
where-with complete military en-
campments as an added attraction
the densest crowds were expected.
Tonight, latticed streaks of light |
criss-crossed in the sky from the
searchlights Of home fleet vessels
moored in the Thames
Ocean Liners Illuminated.
The river itself spanked with many
colored CLEANS from Illuminated ocean
liners wedged in close ranks at anchor
age.
River police. buzzing hornets among
the great black hullS, dashed up and
down the river in speed boats assign
ing the visiting ships their places.
A hundred thousand tons of ship
(See CORONATION, Page A-16D