CORONATION POSTSCRIPT
! FTER the impressive display | of resource in the Coronation broadcast, Coronation Day Across the World had little to do but tidy up impressions and | provide a postscript. The fading voices of the commentators had little new to say; what made the _ programme interesting in a_ swift-flying, -rooftop-level way was the background of noises against which most of the contributions were recorded. While the ‘voices beat like a sea around Bucking--ham Palace, and the lights flashed up along the ceremonial way, in Camberwell the crowds were singing "Bunch o’ Cokernuts," churchbells were ringing across the Cotswolds, and the pipes played from Edinburgh Castle. In Paris they were singing "Parlez-moi D’Amour" (nostalgic tune); at The Hague} more prosaically, it was "Daisy, Daisy." Talking drums from Africa; in Hong Kong gongs and golden dragons, Some items were less stimulating: Berlin was an opportunity missed; the Embassy reception in Oslo was dull; the note on the dateline in Fiji, out of place; and ‘why go all the way to Copenhagen for swing? But nothing could have been better, for an ending, than the announcement of the Everest exploit and the sound of chimes from Wellington,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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193CORONATION POSTSCRIPT New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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