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Daily Times-Gazette, 1 Jun 1953, p. 28

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$2 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, June 1, 1958 Log May she have a long reign, devoted to the establishment of peace and the welfare of all mankind, Progressive School Shaped Future Consort | "os ®- So (Sang tlie | wm TONY'S i treet East REFR SHMENT By Bert Oliver Is So ught "Your -- a Dealer' YOUR 10CAL Snape LIFE in the rugged little ports along Scotland's Moray Firth 253 BLOOR ST. EAST PHONE 5.4598 does not change much through the years. The fishing boats Fo 0 r FE ven A crowd about the harbors when the season is on, and, through the hard winter, lie idle in the sheltered bays and inlets. In the By Francis Martin summer, city folk come down to the sea and scramble about the VERY oth : : rocky coastline and go walking along the stretches of golden E other village organist sand and under the northern sun. 'It is a pleasant life and it and one suburban piano has been like that for very long. teacher in three share the illu- From time to time, one or other of the gnarled, weather- sion that they have written THE song hit of the Coronation "Long Live The Queen" E. Becket Real Estate (Toronto) Brooklin Office -- MISS LYLIA M. McBRIEN beaten old fishermen of the coast dies. But there are always (Dueen is Crowned others to take their place. Lads who have grown up there and |seoson. : . This, at any rate, is my im- taken to the sea to become, in time, as salty as their forebears. \ : Some have sought a more ambitious career in the big ocean-|pression after a round of music publishers from Tin Pan Alley oing vessels. 4 Sid ! i 1 he e was one such lad who| Edinburgh, as he then became, was (Charing Cross Road) to sed- : his = 1d in those appointed to temporary duty infater and more historic houses spent his schoo gays in the Admiralty with the Director a mile or so further west. Ever parts in the mid-thirties. He was|of Operations -- something of a|_. Cui foe at Gordonstoun School, .where|backroom boy. But sul cunging sce the Accession, manu ) b encouraged to to hopes for an active naval caieel, scripts of Coronation ballads, ver , er ' the Hoys Were 2 he was posted 0 tie gh Stal marches and waltzes have been taste the life of the sea and the|course at Greenwich from April to i Ba | harbors fiiid: Sepiember, 1543. AL ihe end showering upon individual Jilie ne . of this, he was put on half-pay a ish I f ¥ ers at the rate of up to Ever since those carefree days at|ils own request. publis 43 2 . Pp scivol on the Moray Firth, the| Prince Charles ig born and the a week. . 4 . ._|Duke had less and less chance t0| The manuscripts are assessed by : P : unis: s 3 young britice lias borne She 4 iollow the sea. but he was still loxploitation men, known to the takavble stamp of the sea. He has|jetermined to resume his career trade as song pluggers, who sit at built himself a tine naval career,/as soon as possible. ' Soon after lypright pianos or be grands in the hard way, and risen to com- moving ino Clarence rouse an smoke-fugged cubby-holes strum- . A stant, el duly, , he tlew to Malta and imine and humming their way jniend fis own Sip, Reluutan a he joined the destroyer as First Lieu- i oceans of trash. For the has given up the sea for his Royalijenant, "or "Jimmy the One," as it of these Coronation COMPO: duties. But if ever he is able to re-|the ratings call this officer. He |gtions is poor on the whole. Not turn, ne will For the Duke ofjWent back to living in a cabin 7 one piece in a thousand has the re- i 4 born sailor jit by 9 ft. with one porthole and ln,oiect chance of seeing print Ldinburgh 1s a a : a ceiling draped with waterpipes i : E . His early life was not easy for) some contest to the home he | A Fair Trial him. He bore the Litle of a foreign had left, Betore beius thio prince, but the Navy saw to it that Towards the end of 1950, he was however, given a fair he was Lreated no better than the promoted Lieutenant-Commander ney are considered from all musi ne He knew he would have and took command of the frigalei a] angles, including academic next man. He 4 Magpie, a wartime U-boat Killer.) 0 f 'the busiest woloitat to work hard. He: had been told|Life at the Malta station was good | One of tHe busiest e€xploraron by many, including his school-|As the Duke says, it was "the pest (MER 1 De al WC i321 years master in Scotland -- Kurt Hahn, |Year of my life." Ihere were long| = = 0 "Pore dally on manu : Kable char- cruises and exercises with the oop oo no oT ly © é an anti-Nazi of remar e char-|fome. and Mediterranean Fleets, |[SCrPt sampling. : acter who *refugeed" his schoolland all the interest of a first com- Frardsa] fame down from Cam rom Germany -- that at iis best mand. Princess Elizabeth, like so|bridge with a Mus, Sac. degree as i Yi put his second |many other Navy wives, joined him |well as the MA in his pocket. He he was oulstznding, but So heat Malta when she could, ana|can analyse a Bach fugue or a best was not good encugh. So hep on. 15 make the round of en-|Byrd motet with the best, but three tried, and the results speak foro oemonis™ ashore attractiv |vears on the outskirts of Tin Pa e lo) S OULSK 0 i an themselves, gage |Alley have given him equal insight § Joined the Navy for popular num- 3 | Bue it had to end. On July 16, into "pops," short At 18, Philip joined the Royal , he relinquished his command Hs : ivy'ah a cadet and trained at the (416, EUR 19, HERAED L& R8iSl acted" Hl) Oromation piece, come yal Naval College, Dartmoutn. 8 € urden of Roya i ation pieces, some ! engagements, made heavier by the| of them from faraway addresses, y Bag s e ef / : He was awarded tne King's Dirk | 3 i . spi : > first illness of King George VI, He including Honduras, the Punjab 3 8s finest all-round cadet of hisjw or : w 18] Jamaica. Kenva, Vaneouver ' § § A : rard- on half pay again and now 168, nya, Yangouyer ¥ ie A germ and aiso the Eardley Howard 3 Rie ' or 40 to > has reiente has indefinite leave from the Navy.| the 240 total he has re a Crockett prize for the pest cadet. |yo on™ yd renin le aYY:i160 himself as hopeless. The ? Lead Be a 8 i # In January, 1940, he went to sea |the Duke of Edinburgh like as a|S0 were thrown out at fortnightly / A 1% Ler irayr <M 1807 Bore { In [lh a midshipman in the battleship |sailor, as a man? Well, ashore and sessions of his firm's vetting com- oT La wl Sr B A ¢ Fa fi BS amillies, a far cry irom the cut- afloat, they say: "A jolly good |mittee, a synod of shrewd, hard-bit- ' iin dow 4 > ! rs and sailing boats he helped chap." teh spoejalists who jonow exactly uild and sail on the Moray Firth. what it takes in time and money e was with the Ramillies four ato he was, Shave all sls, 3/0 get a number sung and played by months and saw New Zealand for |orew he was "Jimmy Pd not| the. right people on records and 'the first time when the ship called (3 Dyke when he was a first Jiey. | radio. : at Wellington during the LCenten- a A ea ey ne SEperience of Reerdsal and nial Exhibition, was always "the Skipper" or hiheins3 vetting committee is typical. After just one year at sea, with |Old Man", Ratings a not brag| ost pluggers, x hen, asked about transfers to the cruisers Kent and about him ashore. But they were| nc, aaity Of the stuff they are Shropshire, the young midshipman [quietly proud. Many stories were boi ane out np heir jjoses ex- was pack on a battleship, this heard about Philip before he joined |? #%5'V€'Y* Suns brother. time HMS Vauant. And it was|Magpie, ere was one about the £20,000 Song with her at the Battle of Cape Ma- |time he tried to board a com-| post song titers are out for tapan that he first saw action. He [panion destroyer early in the|noney and fame in equal parts. was in charge of searchlight con- trol, and for his work in illumina- ting the Italian battlefleet during the night action, was mentioned in despatches and yeceived the Greek Rorning wih ihe ldea of borrowing They have all heard how Haydn Watch saw Hint Hy th D: fi ie Wood sold a million and a quarter lected the full' force of a power. copies of Roses of Picardy in less ful hose. White uniform moulded than 0 years, making a cool £20,000 to his body and blond hair plas- Another thing: once a song-writ- OFFICE OF -, Ck HE COUN i RESIDEN - THE PRIME MINISTER » ¥ of War Cross. During this time, Philip took a tered over his face, he had to re-|or really gets info the vein there is treat before another faceful d sub-lieulenant's course, WInDINg|oventually disappeared to ah no getting him out of it. At 70, four uursts and one second to gain (pint US CHEPPERTRC, (0 the Haydn Wood is as full of tunes as nine months seniority out of a BB! at, a June blackbird. One morning last possible y er @ gunnery Scrupulously Fair year he sat down after breakfast course, he was appointed a sub- > and started writin march-song licutenant on the old destroyer adder reports said he was tough |Princess Elizabeth or BR TL : Wallace in 1942 and soon alter 1 yrannical but these were|words by W. E. St. L. Finny. Be- was pro moted kirst Lieutenant to hy y Aisconce tions of an effici-(fore bedtime he had finished his become, at 21, the youngest officer [nt captain and disciplinarian. He setting, which went promptly tol second-in-command of @ big des- was scrupulously fair. the printer and the recording studio tioyer. There was more action| He was the most junior in rank|where it was sung by a girls' choir. Bois Lhe North Afsicen coast and ha command in the flotilla but| A sheet edition of 3000 and a July 1943 he took part in y the time he left Magple, she|stack of records were put on a lin- invasion. : was at the peak of her peacetime ler for Australia. Thev were to have About this time, Philip learned reputation. ; arrived conveniently ahead of the of the harder, holter facts| When the traditional regatta |Princess's projected visit early this Alering. He was travelling in |day came at Valetta Harbour, |vear. Then the King died, Rrusic up from Suez and had to |Malta, he saw to it'that Magpie |and records were withdrawn and it in tne stokehold after men won six of ten events and [scrapped before they could reach : ® sc gang of stokers had|made their ship Cock Ship of the |the market. : : PrIVREES He. nk nl Si i ly Shi. It was propably flotilla. He made the crews prac-| The number is now in print a sec- rE ee fami ern technology: stlest job he ha ever one tise beforehand till their hands|ond time, with Princess deleted 2 : % : 3 - modern 0 pen vi ie sull keeps a certilicate lwere blistered. He stroked one |from the title ard a retailored lyr- a hE Lk § London mY ile qualilied as a "trimmer" {whaler to victory himself. And |ic rejoicing in Elizabeth as Queen. tion OF of le fd poCra % le 0 ER ge rid, PEO 0 he © hh jes of th ¢ + the CeremORie = ykel's job. when Magpie won, the crew fro , w a Leard, a full, golden [that time on backed him a 8d. Royalty and 1 og 3 wih pia into tly. Mw win the status of a Coronation 4 ; 2 ingae OL war when e used to go swimming with |bit, a song would have to sell at a At nal § : a Sn ferred Lo tic destroyer |the men and Ilked ing ith least 100,000 copies in six or eight oo 80 Far > Pa ag a Hegiance to ihe Ji the Lasiernithan to drive the skimmer -- a|Wecks. At threepence-a-copy royal- : : oo > ur eg r the British Pacific irigate's fast motor launch--Ileay-|ly in the case of a half-crown bal- GF losre Hi tng End, ing the coxswain unceremoniously {1ad, this would yield the composer © suiiender in 10kyO ion board the Magpie or putting [an undivided £1250, supposing him : ~|him in the back seat. Shrewdness|to have writen the words as well ¢ in England the Duke|is part of the Duke's naval com- [as the music. command of Whelp for the |petence. There are always a few| Fees for radio and other perfor- months belore she was) "bad hats" in any big body of men, [mances would swell his takings to serve. There he No ship wants them I some [£1500: not a bad return for a Navy Training |ships have got to have them. It|couple days' work in the case of a dbs Glendowdr, (was noticeable he managed to [slick writer, : 'ales, a base where only | keep them away from the M agpie.| On the Tin Pan Alley wing, where ers with the best ieallershih In fact, he even posted his own. sheet-music still sells as low as a cords were appointed. e took | "Very crafty is the Qld Man," the Shilling a copy, the royalty on a training work and, When the older ratings used to say, "very |100, sale would be only £500 yol eventually cioged, iy aiven fly indeed." But Alley numbers sweéter or hot- post at HMS rt] "However, the Duke .|ter than ballads, often have a big- peti Oo Bis Bain. burgh's naval career Is AAR ger vogue on records. Bearing fn 'S Wilh the seme ability with if not Jetmanently, then for un- mind gramophone as well as radio I's wih the same gi iy ith specified years to come. Ashore takings, an Alley hit should make ch 2 petty he has turned his mind and energy its writer better off by £1200 or to the immensity of his role as £1300 almost at a stroke. \ich the experienced petty officer [Le husband of a British monarch. Ab hough publishers' gambles » competent a master. png in this, he Is showing that he rh os alg i | man. of unus e welv ps" so much as Lieutenant Mountbat, Recall the time A ure, earns its keep: owing to high ex- 0 ES en | Duke gave his presidential address Dlotation eosts the rest are printed ; ad loss, tles in his shirt-sleeves €s 1n I [L-SIGEVES 1 t;, the British Association, heart Not surprisingly, Tin Pan Alley i ' 2y 1s rother officers vat the local Ty FT nd against the local team.|°f @ll British scientific thought. tending to avoid gambles. Publish- 111 know him as Philip there, |. That night in Edinburgh, August |ers i he no in y , are thumb y d on the cricket and hockey 8 =, neatly 20 xdbed and | catalogues ng Eh songs iel ! ges rustle ches whic ? He ran a small sports car, did |silence as Philip maved to the or at oh made ts grale his own revairs and built up local | trum, faced microphones and tele-| Walter Partridge's Coronation ame for his driving. vision cameras and began to speak.| Bells, written for i on camera . a the C Became Engaged Forty five ies Jater the great Edward VII (1902), is Sronaton 4 : : \wunderous ap- windows f It Yas while he was at Corsham plause. It was a triumph for the new a tts Taiadie: that he became engaged to Princess | speaker, for that night the Duke|section melody, The words were right up tl the wedding. is ist calore of 'a men Wh had' rise argu et OL L108 TE wl ie wedding. H st | nan who had risen ers ilective n: Right 2 Jacusior was win 22 rom Sompasative obscurity to the Boll er ene Ave Dame 01. in November, 1947, the Duke of Prince Consort, Noa Jute yrs describing 4 es Vightang God Save The Queen ca warfare, - morale, current irs and the self-expression of

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