It is @ real gala day and while we have had some great times in the past, 2-day looks like beating all former ogeasions. The weather thus far has not been foo kind and there is a slight drizzle which will not help the time honoured procession. now form-{ing at the University, which will proceed to George Square where the Lord Provost will take the salute.
The students are gathering and in a few moments the procession ought to start, led as usual by the pipe band, These students are a versatile crowd. They are clad in every conceivable ind of costume, from the sublime to the ridiculous. There are costumes s0 grotesque as to be almost absurd, while others again are really most artistic. Lorries have been requisitioned, firms apparently are only too delighted to, Joan, them, and on these will be groups of students in fancy dress. who during the day from various vantage centres will entertain the folks in the open alr, while their colleagues 40. ound with their litre' tins asking for money.
Those stixtents will probably work harder to-day than ap any time their University career, and they will dead bear by midnight. But by then they hope to have handed in a Fecord sum of money. Tt all goes to various Charities so that it is all in the best of causes.
4 Another Exhibition Ballahouston has undergone a metamorphosis. Glasgow is again undertaking an Exhibition, It has jone that kind of thing in' the past ud hax done it well, but the Exhibi-lon {o: be opened by the King and Queen In May will surpass anything of the sort that has ever been in any part of the world. It will be the most outstanding Exhibition of the Kind ever witnessed and a'view of the buildings now, almost completed well on the road to completion, reveals the vast scale of the plan:
"The erection, of these wonderfully artistic thulldings must be costing a mint of money and at this stage of the proceedings one Is left wondering how the Exhibition is going to pay, but there appears to be no doubts in' the minds of the promoters as well as of the Glasgow public that the Exhibition will not only be outstanding from the view point of beauty, attraction and business, but, that it' will more than pay Itself. Certainly as viewed to-day it deserves to be all this and more, "The Exhibition will make Glasgow the mecca of the Empire while nationals of other countries will come to view what this great city can do the way of the fnesr Exhibition the World has seen thus far.
The Circus "Folds up"
Our circus finishes to-night and many will regret the fact. It has been immensely popular. There were days when actually there were three performances a day and even then Rumbers were unable to gain admis sion, The high standard of former years
passed and again one Is left wondering was "not only equalled, it as sur just how the authorities are going to be able to produce a programme as fascinating and as varied as was, the tone given this year. The Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival for this season were the best the Corporation has yet iver, What will they do for next Christmas and New Year?
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