Show E England g and T Turns urn Out En Masse to See Total Eclipse of Old Sol L Lff ff J. J ers Make Gala Gal Affair of of Phenomenon non t While Bands Play and Movies Entertain 1 LONDON T June 2 29 20 AP Thou AP-Thou- Thousands Thou Thou- t f sands fiands of persons persons' persons persons' In England were r thrilled by an excellent view of the eclipse of the sun this morning l The phenomenon so far as London London London Lon Lon- don was concerned was a 3 com corn complete complete washout literally as we well as metaphorically The known well English weather asserted Itself heartlessly to the disappointment of London's Lond ns n's millions London was not In t the e totality totality- area however Sheffield reported a glorious view of the fu full eclipse Birmingham l c announced that the eclipse was clearly visible although briefly Cardiff had a fine view while DarlIngton Darlington Dar Bar lington Leeds Nottingham m and several other places reported inI In- In I glimpses STARTS AT The curtain was wa rolled up on the s sy great drama at 5 20 when he the first y dent in the sun became manifest to o the sound of much appreciative t 4 applause The play 4 lay moved sl slowly a forward to Its climax with the audience aU- aU dl nce growing larger and larger larder until the crucial moment came at 6 24 the beginning beginning- of the period of A hush fell hundreds hun hun- f totality oVer oel the dr ds of thousands of stricken awe-stricken I 1 sun un lun gazers ra J From the distance came the hidden hidden hid hid- hidI I den drone of airplanes soaring above the clouds to peep more moe intimately In- In I Into the mysteries over over them For tw twenty three seconds the i totality lasted and then the play moved on to It its anticlimax The I show was not completely over un un- til to when Mr Sun obtained a full divorce from front Miss 1 Moon It was the tho first total solar eclipse England has had In two hundred years year and a large proportion of England's 4 persons poked their heads from windows or craned their necks from sidewalks In the cities and hills and fields In the rural areas for astronomers had made it known there would not be bea bea bea a similar sight t until the year 11 1999 The scientific results of the eclipse still remain to be tabulated anal analyzed zed and compared Hundreds of astronomers from all corners of the world crowded their apparatus Into th the totality area made observations observations and took photographs TOWNS WIDE OPEN The counties coUnties' of Lancashire Cheshire Durham and Yorkshire in inthe inthe inthe the path of the total eclipse were wide open all night In a sort of party Moving picture houses houles ran continuously l until 5 and o'clock 6 this morning There were all night balls from which men l and Women went in evening clothes to br breakfast and then to neighboring hills for tor a I peep at the tile celestial show There were band performances performances performances perform perform- ances throughout the early arly morn- morn Ing Trains kept arriving In the totality district until 3 a a. a in An night all-night coron coronation ceremony could not have produced a greater nit nil of festivity than the big show of or the heavens it was like Halloween New Years Year's Christmas and Easter thrown into one |