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Show Five U. S. Radio Reporters to Cover Elizabeth's Wedding the full coast-to-coast facilities at a time when the largest potential po-tential nation-wide audience will be available. pooled broadcast, edited recordings record-ings will be played back over f v Vi - 1 i I r Great Britain's historic royal wedding, the Nov. 20 marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten, will be described de-scribed by eye-witness Arthur Mann, radio correspondent, iji a special overseas broadcast that day. Mr. Mann will be one of five radio reporters participating participat-ing in a pooled description for the four major United States networks of the wedding of the future Queen of England, with the broadcast scheduled to start at 5 a.m., CST. Mr. Mann 'will be located in a special broadcasting booth inside in-side Westminster Abbey along with Edward R. Morrow. The booth will permit unobstructed views of the entrance, middle aisle and altar of the abbey, where the internationally significant sig-nificant wedding ceremony will be performed, according to present pres-ent plans, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Ach-bishop Ach-bishop of York. Vantage Points En Route Heard, also, during this historic his-toric broadcast will be Frederick Opper, describing the royal processional pro-cessional as it leaves Buckingham Bucking-ham Palace in an open four-horse-drawn landau flanked by footment and postillions and wends its way slowly to Westminster West-minster Abbey. In this processional proces-sional will be the royal bride-to-be, her father and mother, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and her younger sister, Princess Margaret. As the procession reaches its mid-point' en route, Admiralty Arch, the broadcaster describing describ-ing the event will be Howard K. Smith, who will offer his word descriptions as it passes by him. Merrill Mueller, London correspondent, corre-spondent, will be located outside Westminster Abbey at a vantage van-tage point giving him unobstructed unobstruc-ted view, not only of the regal bridal processional, but also that of the groom, Lieutenant Mountbatten. Recording to Be Made It is anticipated that the entire en-tire proceedings, arranged with the cooperation of the British Broadcasting Corporation, will take approximately two hours of air-time to describe. However, Howev-er, due to the early hour of the overseas transmission of the Elizabeth Taylor, young ingenue of Warner Bros.' "Life With Father," returns aboard the Queen Mary from a visit to her native England. The screen starlet brought back two French poodles to add to her kennel family. |
