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...through the staid, stuffy circles of English aristocracy, justly rating TIME'S relegation to "dilettante Mayfair," but Edward VII lives in the hearts of lovers of good living and the archives of great cookery. Chefs all over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion by a democracy-professing American aristocracy of good living, ushered in the Reign now celebrating its Silver Jubilee...
...correspondents trumped up a story that the King had asked his eldest son not to dance the rhumba or carioca at the State Ball this week in Buckingham Palace. On the program, however, were only polkas, waltzes and fox trots, including Sweetie Pie, I'm on a See-Saw, and An Old Lullaby, rendered from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. by the Royal Artillery Band...
...King George's Silver Jubilee and imperceptibly slumped in, dozed off. Scotland Yard decided that to control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove almost beneath Queen Victoria's marble nose and cooking the family breakfast...
...racket except that it makes the machines. So far as the Brothers Mills know, their notorious product is simply used as a "trade stimulator" or for amusement. Indeed, many a slot machine goes into the mansions of fun-loving financiers. Mills insists that there are several slot machines in Buckingham Palace, and the company has turned out special jobs using $5 gold pieces for a rich Chinese gentleman in Singapore. The Prince of Nepal has slot machines in all of his bathrooms...
...them lit again in our life time," his prophetic eye did not envisage London yesterday. It's streets tricked in colors of red, white, blue and gold; its buildings flooded with many colored lights; Westminster Abbey, described in one account as "a poem in old ivory," and Buckingham Palace a "stately miracle in white"--in such dress London toasted King George's silver jubilee so proudly as to make one feel there had never been a war nor was one in the making...