Dark And Swiftian Satirists

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30401, 28 March 1964, Page 5

Dark And Swiftian Satirists

[By STANLEY REYNOLDS in the “Guardian"!

11/ELL, we said, flicking on '' the old box, here we ate at home in time to watch a little of the old box, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to catch the last half of that new dark and Swiftian satire show. There they are taking the dark and Swiftian mickey out of all those wet and weedy street ' interviewers. This is black comedy all right. What a dark and satanic set, you'd swear that was the street outside Buckingham Palace on a dark and satanic Winter s night all right. Better turn up the sound, don't want to miss any of this.

Hello out there, and here we are on the street outside Buckingham Palace on this cold winter night where a crowd has been gathering all evening to celebrate the. news that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has. just given birth to a new Prince, out here live on the street outside Buckingham Palace.

Boy, oh boy. We said, these new dark and Swiftian satirists are real dark and Swiftian all right.

. . . Yes, we’ve been out here for several hours now watching the crowd gathering to celebrate the birth of Her Majesty the Queen’s fourth child. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth gave birth to her fourth child, a son, at 8.20 at Buckingham Palace tonight, and now Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, have four royal children. The announcement of the birth of Her Majesty’s fourth child came just over 50 minutes after the birth. It said: “The Queen was safely delivered of a son at 8.20 this evening. Her Majesty and the infant Prince are both well.” And we can take this to mean that Her Majesty the Queen has now given birth to a son, her fourth child, and that, indeed, they are both doing well. After the birth, the baby, a son, and Her Majesty the Queen’s third son and. fourth child, was placed in a cradle, a cream-painted iron cradle, trimmed with peach satiri

under a deep cream spotted net, and with air eiderdown of peach satin. Now back to the studio.'

Well, you!ve all undoubtedly heard . the news that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the reigning monarch, has given birth, at 8.20, to. a son, her fourth child, and we can all take this to mean that. Prince Andrew is no longer the baby in-the family. Now back to the scene outside . the Palace.

Hello again, and as ybu can see a crowd has been gathering here to celebrate the birth of Her Majesty the Queen’s fourth child, a son, and we’re going to talk to them. Hello there, I see ybu are out here celebrating the birth of the new Prince. Have you been here long? Five minutes. You haven’t been here long then? And you madam, how long have you been here? Ten minutes. Well, you haven’t been here long either, but you’ve been here twice as long as this gentleman who’s only been here five minutes, , and . I want to say that it. is cold here outside Buckingham Palace where Her- Majesty the Queen has just given birth to her fourth child. And this, of course, means' that Prince Andrew will no longer be the baby of the family. Yes, and it also Will mean that Princess Anne will have another brother. Yes, and Prince Charles wiU have another brother too.' And, of course, Prince Andrew, who is no longer the baby of the Royal Family, will have, another brother too. What name would you like the new

Prince to have , madam? George. And you sir? Tee hee, I don’t know,. I’ve never thought of it before. And you? George, I guess. And you, sir, What name would you like this, new Royal Prince, the fourth child to be born to Her Majesty the Queen, to have? Wilfred F. Perkins from Golders Green. Well, yes; Well, it is cold out here. And now back to the studio. ... Here in the studio we have just learned that the new Prince has been taken from his cream-painted, iron cradle, trimmed with peach satin, and has been put into a Moses basket that was formerly the property of Queen Maty and was given to the Queen when she was Princess Elizabeth. We think the new Prince was covered in a yellow blanket but we are not sure at this time.

Well, we said, on the edge of out seat, those new dark satirists sure pull all the stops out. Now they’re playing God Save The Queen. Say, this is Swiftian all right. Better stand up though just the same, you can't ever tell.