3 DECEMBER 1965, Page 6

Command Performance

I had a wonderful time. 1 went with Elaine Snitch and her friends. I would have liked to have met the Princess and her husband but they were surrounded by admirers.—Thomas Cole, the grocery boy who received a Royal Command to the Manhattan .Foyr Seasons Dance.

The mob was such he could not get

Close up to Princess Margaret.

Yet all agree that Thomas Cole Enjoyed himself upon the whole.

For when he asked who danced with whom.

He got a nod from Eileen Boom, And if he wondered which was which There came a wink from Elaine Stritch.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS