Jubilee

P: In Bombay, a fireworks factory, working double shifts to get ready India's celebration of the Royal Jubilee (May 6), last week blew up.

P: In Windsor, Ontario, sturdy subjects of George Windsor decided not to celebrate the Jubilee with a beauty contest "because such contests give the girls a false idea of good looks and importance."

P: Anchor Line executives credited a 48% quarterly spurt over last year in cheap tourist bookings to the Jubilee.

P: In their high power London news-organs, England's Press peers complained that the program of George V's Jubilee procession is only half a column long, whereas Queen Victoria's in 1897 was a five-column procession. Headlined the Star: "A FOUR HOUR WAIT--FOR WHAT? Misgivings about the lack of pageantry."

P: Anecdotage provoked by the Jubilee drew from equine-featured Margot Asquith's daughter-in-law Lady Cynthia this: "Once the Queen was ill and the King was sitting by her bedside holding her hand, when she fell asleep. Afraid that if he moved she would be awakened, the King remained in the same position for several hours. Another time the King said with deep feeling, 'If anything were to happen to the Queen I should die.' "

P: Since President Roosevelt has raised the value of King George's solid gold dinner service from, $9,000,000 to $16,000,000 (approximate), His Majesty decided last week not to risk it at the Jubilee banquet. Guests will eat off china, may afterward view the gold plates, some of which some of them might have snitched, in a brightly lighted, closely guarded Buckingham Palace showcase. Even a butter plate would have been good for $500.

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