| Show London's London s Lord Mayor Can Even Halt King Has las More Robes and Ceremony Than Royalty Cant Can't Go Calling Without Wig Vig and Big Coach King Cant Can't Enter City Without Mayors Mayor's Permission fly lly jrSSIE limo New Nc Yorker broad Special of Examiner Copyright 1927 1527 by Consolidated Press PIes Association LONDON Feb Its n-It'll 12 If a tough job maintaining the th dignity o 0 ot time tile 1 It If theres there's any any- ono in the tho world who i Is cribbed confined by convention and ceremony its it's It the tho his lordship the mayor of oC London All As representative ot of 0 the th common people ho hu Is so 60 1 l about bout by b ceremony that In comparison a 1 aking J king hint Is I a bricklayer Theres There's the tho mayoral robe In the first place the tho Affable Actable the Mayor of ot New l NewYork Ne York trying to lash iash round abOut city hell hall In a 0 gorgeous red blanket edged with fur tur trailing three yards behind him hint among the brass cue cus- cuspidors and wire wastebaskets Imagine also a ponderous chain ot of gold with a big bl medal on each end ond ot of it just to show hes he's the th may may- mayor mayor mayor or clanking across the mayoral cheat cheet and getting tangled in the th Inkwell and telephone cord MUST III HE IX IS COACh CO Few Fow other people In the UniteS I have hae such uch a dickens ot of ota ofa ola a time when they want to pay an offIcial call Even the of oC Vales ales s a 1 mere representative ot of royalty can hop a taxi tax If it he ho pleas pleas- pleases pleases es Cs and ho he usually docs does so Ah AIm but no taxi clicks click a away way the miles mile for tor forthe the lord lorl mayor mayo when city business takes him into tho the highways Out Outcomes Outcomes comes the time coach magnificent In Ingold Ingold gold leaf leat and plush upholstering Out comes come the bewigged and knee knee- l lackeys out come also the heral heralds 1 blowing Sir Rowland nowland Blades tIme the present mayor maor Is Is of ot course coune housed In the lord mayors mayor's mayor mansion Lord may may- mayor's mayor or ors or's mansion sounds sound fine but thanks to the th remarkable archi combined with London moke the th big bic square stone ston house houe look looks Ilk like a neat combination ot of and jail Londoners themselves admit t this ls with Ith II a a cc- cc tam gloomy pride Yet there theres there's one big bir satisfaction at least in being head of ot the mu- mu municipality of ot London The Th worship worshipful tut fui can keep the king kinc out O of ot Lon Lon- London Lon London don anytime ho likes CAN STOP IJ KING G Of at course being ion lori lorl mayor of London doesn't mean moan being mayor mayoo 0 of the whole metropolis nol Chelsea each In In- In Individual section has it Ih its Individual moor mayor The lord mayor Is head only ot of o the th city that prehistoric little area right In tho middle ot of town An And 1 whenever the king makes makl's an official trip to the tho city d you ou Imagine he ho sweeps sweep right In Inas Inas Iras as any ordinary person does Not Noat ot at all His chauffeur halts halls one one yard or so 80 on the Buckingham pal pal pal- palace ace side of oC o the tho city boundary and not an inch across this bound bound- boundary boundary boundary ary loes royalty proceed until the th lord mayor of ot London plus London plus herald coach and comes all all to the th boundary to live give permission to d do doso doso so No lord mayor maor has ha ever ye re- re refused fused this thi permission but but he h could In thIs thi One on respect the cat that may look at a king kinc has noth- noth nothIng Ing whatever on the th worshipful |
