1.
GV PAN CROWD OUTSIDE PALLADIUM
0.05

2.
SV NOEL COWARD ARRIVES
0.10

3.
SV PAN JOE BROWN ARRIVES
0.12

4.
GV CROWD OUTSIDE
0.15

5.
SV QUEEN GETS OUT OF CAR GREETED
0.36

6.
SV ENTERS THEATRE
0.38

7.
SV PAN DITTO AND MEETS FLO HASTINGS
0.52

8.
SV QUEEN TALKS TO FLO HASTINGS
0.59

9.
CU QUEEN LEAVES FLO HASTINGS - WALKS AWAY
1.08

10.
BV DITTO
1.11

11.
SV QUEEN SITS DOWN
1.15

12.
GV EXT..THEATRE
1.17

13.
SV KARTHY KIRBY SINGS AUTOGRAPHS
1.21

14.
SV BACHELORS TALKING
1.24

15.
SV TOMMY COOPER
1.27

16.
CU GRACIE FIELDS
1.30

17.
GV STARS COMING OFF STAGE
1.35

18.
SV MILLICENT MARTIN AND CLIFF RICHARD
1.38

19.
GV STARS EXIT FROM FINALE
1.40

20.
SV MILLICENT MARTIN (CENTRE) TALKS TO GROUP STARS
1.45

21.
CU CILLA BLACK
1.47

22.
GV EXTERIOR
1.50



Initials ???/R POOL/RM/EEH RM/EEH



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Background: QUEEN ELIZABETH LAST NIGHT (MONDAY) ATTENDED BRITAIN'S SHOW BUSINESS EVENT OF THE YEAR - THE ROYAL COMMAND VARIETY PERFORMANCE. STARTS, OLD AND YOUNG, WERE AMONG THE PERFORMERS OR IN THE AUDIENCE.

AMONG THE FIRST ARRIVALS WAS PLAYWRIGHT NOEL COWARD AND SINGER JOE BROWN, LEADER OF THE BRUVVERS POP GROUP. THEY WERE THERE AS GUESTS.

THE BIG SHOW-STOPPER WAS THE QUEEN'S DRESS - A FULL-SKIRTED FROCK OF ICE-BLUE ORGANZA, FITTED BODICE EMBROIDERED WITH DIAMANTE AND FINISHED WITH DIAMANTE ICICLES AT THE WAIST.

SHE WAS PRESENTED WITH A BOUQUET BY 95-YEAR-OLD FLO HASTINGS, THE OLDEST RESIDENT OF A HOME FOR RETIRED MUSIC-HALL STARS. THE SHOW IS HELD EACH YEAR PARTLY FOR THEIR BENEFIT.

THE TALENT-PACKED LINE-UP IN THE SHOW INCLUDED SINGER KATHY KIRBY, THE IRISH BALLAD GROUP THE BACHELORS, COMEDIAN TOMMY COOPER, VETERAN GRACIE FIELDS AT 66 MAKING HER NINTH APPEARANCE, AND A HOST OF OTHERS.

AFTER THE SHOW, IT WAS TIME TO RELAX FOR STARS LIKE POP IDOL CLIFF RICHARD, ACTRESS-SINGER MILLICENT MARTIN, AND ONE OF BRITAIN'S BIGGEST YOUNG FEMALE POPSTERS, CILLA BLACK.

THE SHOW RAISED ABOUT GBP30,000 FOR CHARITY.

FOOTNOTE: THE BEATLES -- LAST YEAR'S BIG HIT -- WERE NOT AMONG THE PERFORMERS.