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There is one more chore: dinner and the evening out. Jan Smuts tries to be home and in bed by 11. Sometimes he must stay longer. One recent night, when he dined at Buckingham Palace, he sat beside Princess Elizabeth, the Heiress Presumptive, had a chance to get better acquainted with a pillar of her Empire. Most menacing to Jan Smuts's sleep are Winston Churchill's dinners. Britain's Prime Minister likes to talk on & on, until 2 or 3 a.m., sipping the South African brandy which his good right hand, Jan Smuts, thoughtfully brought along...
...Yellow Canary (RKO-Radio) is porcelain-jawed Anna Neagle sacrificing her good name by flashlighting the Luftwaffe's way to Buckingham Palace. Just to watch reputable Cinemactress Neagle play a fifth columnist for half a picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better...
...drugstore cowboy has a native instinct for the busiest corner. When he can he makes for London. There he and his buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah, not much chance for promotion...
...thinking it bordered on sacrilege for anyone else but Roosevelt to fill this place. It was the same feeling I would have had as a boy in Jamaica, picturing anyone else living in Buckingham Palace but King Edward...
...Buckingham Palace announced that the King's youngest living brother, the tall, soldierly Duke of Gloucester, will become Australia's Governor General next July...