THE MOUNTED POLICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE MOUNTED POLICE

CANADA'S "NORTH-WESTS" NEW YORK PERFORMANCE ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION 1 " The greatest spectacle seen in ing memory in Madison Square Garden," is the description given by one writer of the performance of a squadron of 36 members of the famous "Northwest Mounted Police, for whose appearance special permission was given by the Prime Minister of Canada. It is recalled that thousands of Americans had applied for admission to the Canadian force when two of its members were sent for temporary duty on the occasion of the opening of the Canadian Legation in Washington seven years ago says the Herald's New York correspondent. The visit aroused New York to such an extent that feature writers resurrected adjectives that had lain buried since the Armistice to express their delight. A writer in the World-Telegram said: "Admitting the unique effect of the males in the boxes, ' Millionaire How,' all of whom Wore stove-pipe hats, as if mourning for a departed Tammamy leader, and the gentlemen who wrapped their expensive bodies in butcher aprons as they' drove those little toy buggies around' the ring, the hit of the show was the Canadian ' Mounties.' " To the strains of ' The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers,' which did not seem altogether flattering to the * Mounties ' or their mounts, spirited horses carried their scarlet-coated masters through a series of intricate drill manoeuvres that was nothing short of breath-taking. The ' Mounties ' do everything the Roxyettes do on the stage, and do it on horseback. At that, I was slightly disappointed in the finale when the horses did not stand on their hind-quarters at attention when the band played ' God Save The King.' [ No longer is it a mystery why the ■ ' Mounties ' always get their man. It : must lie a pleasure to surrender to those gallant fellows. Before the week is over I venturo to say they will have Baby-face Nelson and Dutch Schultz (America's No. 1 and No. 2 Public Enemies) on their knees begging to be ' sent to the electric chair." The visit recalls to residents of ' Chicago the unparallelled scenes they , witnessed five years ago when two • " Mounties " from Vancouver trailed i their man across the continent, and t arrested him in Chicago. On that Evening, they Mere guests of the heads of , Chicago Polico at a well-known cabaret. ■ At niid-niglit, when opera-goers had ar- ' rived, a spotlight was thrown on the . table occupied by the visitors and their . hosts while a loud-speaker proclaimed: . "Ladies and gentlemen, wo, have with p us to-night two inemberKvpf the famous Canadian Mounted and we're [ glad to tell you that they've got their i man—right here in Chicßgo." A thous- , and diners rose to their feet and choored. " It was the most embarrassing moment in our Jives," Mid the sergeant.