All change
Independent Television put on a spiritual uplift programme titled Viewpoint recently. The show, if that is the word, including an interview on Higher Things with the ever present Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham (exposing his conscience in public again), was written, acted and produced by a sturdily-named Noel Picarda Kemp.
Who was playing this dark brooding sen- sitive but Kiplingesque part, taking us around his alma mater Westminster School and its chapel, the Abbey. but our old irreverent- humoured chum, ex-Young Liberal. Noel Picarda who it seems has been made to change his name to get past preliminary screening by Conservative Constituency Association Selection Committees?'
If you are to blend it is just as well to make a thorough job of it like eleven-year-old Stormont Samuel. He changed his name, rather precociously. I should have thought, in 1925 to Mancroft, to find that if he had waited a few years he would have been saved the trouble by succeeding to his father's brand new title of Lord Mancroft in 1937.
Miss Maureen Guinness married becoming the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava and though now married to Judge John Randen finds it convenient to call herself, still, Lady Dufferin. Since there is a perfectly good Lady Dufferin in her busy daughter-in-law she may perhaps now have taken the status of Dowager, Lady Dufferin or. more alarm- ingly for the poor judge, Maureen Lady Dufferin. M it is they probably have diffi- culty in the stickier hotels.
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