JOLLIEST LORD MAYOR’S SHOW

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 2

JOLLIEST LORD MAYOR’S SHOW

non and 3!Anon thiull THE CHILD HEN. (My F. n. PRINCE WHTTK.j • Three very excited Frenchmen. almost dancing with delight in the roadway near St. Maul’s ('athedral, shouted vigorously, “Cost ningnilique! Vivo le Lord Mayor!” as Sir Kynasion Studd. in his guidon coach, wont riding smilingly hy in the wake of his •front precession yesterday. They were quite right to call the Lord Mayor’s Show magnificent, hut it was even more than that—it was magnificently merry. Indeed if tile hurricane of cheering and the thunderclaps of admiring laughter which accompanied its progress through the City’s decorated streets properly expressed their feeiings the hundreds of thousands of men. women, and childen who gazed on the show must have thought it was the jolliest they had ever seen. The bright silt set the whole procession shining. It gleamed on the glossy hacks of the horses, glinted on guns and rilie-barrels, and glowed on the Lord Mayor’s golden coach and on the painted noses of the City giants, Gog and Magog alike. SHIVERED WITH JOY.

What a joyous host of boy and girl spectators there was. All along the route they occupied the “orchestra stalls” as it were, and fairly shivered with joy when the horses of the lancers almost touched their faces. And how they shrieked with laughter when the monstrous heads of Gog and Magog come nodding into view high above the whole procession. In the “Pageant of Education” the hoy who “went fishing” instead of to school was every child’s hero when he clouted unsuspecting tutors with the fish on the end of the line. The new Lady Mayoress. Lady Studd saw the show from the balcony of the Mansion Mouse. When she had seen her husband's golden coach vanish like a little yellow mist she sighed. “How wonderful it was!” she said to me. “Mow happy my husband looked—and how happy all the people looked ! I am so glad everybody has looked happy to-day—for my husband’s sake and my own. RUSSIAN FLAG COMPLIMENT. “Would 1 have liked to ride beside the. Lord Mayor in his coach? Oh no—T don’t think so. I think such a experience would have been too great for me. No, J prefer to be here, in the quiet Mansion House. Before her marriage to Sir Kynaston Studd the Lady Mayoress was Princess Alexandra Licven of Russia and she told me: “I am most happy, because Londoners have out of goodness and kindness of their large hearts honoured me hy flying the flag of the old Imperial Russia on their buildings—the flag of what was once my own dear country.”