TELEVISION VIEW SEEKERS
1500 Queue For Seats In Festival Hall (Special Correspondent N.Z.P-A) LONDON, April 17. The Royal Festival Hall authorities have sold 3000 Coronation day tickets, and many for the evening session, in 57 minutes after the booking opened. Fifteen hundred men and women queued in a biting wind for four hours to ensure themselves an all-day television view of Coronation day happenings from a seat in the hall. The tickets —from £ 1 to 25s—included the price of a picnic lunch. Four clerks dealt with the queue-7-one in every four or five was estimated to be 55 years old or more and with a pile of 3000 letters Telephones started to ring at 10 a.m., when the booking opened and continued all day. As a result the hall had £4OOO in its till—a record m takings in so short a time.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27018, 18 April 1953, Page 7
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