Stage Lily Levinson Extract from The Trial of Israel Lipski
scene one
Fanfare. Queen Victoria enters, preceded by Soldiers and State Officials. Everything is red and gold. Cheering crowds, waving flags. Pomp. Circumstance. The Procession marches slowly across the stage. The Editors appear. They shout excitably over each other, and over the proceedings. Editor One: Theee pall! mall! gazette! pronounces the Queen’s Golden Jubilee ceremonial a most excellent success! No other function has illustrated Modern London more perfectly, nor brought out so fully the unity of / the people – Editor Two:
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, largest circulation in! the! world!, declares that in Queen Victoria the world beholds the Foremost Monarch of the age! The congratulations she received from almost every civilised nation on the Face of the Earth were a tribute to the greatness of the Anglo-Saxon race –
Editor Three: Helmets and Swords! Editor One: – the remotest of improbabilities that anyone now living will see such a scene again. To millions of the young it will serve for the rest of their lives as a great historic day during which all went right! lily levinson
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