DRESS THE PART.
POET LAUREATE UNIFORM.
LONDON, January 1C
• Suggestions that the Poet Laureate should adopt a broad sombrero, and a flowing cloak as his official garb arc niade by the "Tailor and Cutter." This journal is critical. John Maseiield, exsailor in clipper ships, and writer of verses of singular beauty as' well as virility, is himself one of the most simple- of men. Ho would be as little disturbed at the thought that his overcoat was worn—if ho thought about it at all, as he would be at the comments thereon of the "Tailor and Cutter."
John Masefield's overcoat was showing signs of wear and tear when worn at his recent appearance at the Exhibition of Persian Art. "There are- certain privileges and duties attached to the position or Poet Laureate. Why not a, uniform? "the paper concludes. J
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 7
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140DRESS THE PART. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 7
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