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...Washington were enough to open the sluices of homesickness for Poetaster Mary Wilson, 53, who was once (some say in jest) nominated for the chair of poetry at Oxford. Shortly after returning to England with her husband, the Prime Minister's wife made a guest appearance on BBC radio's Open House hour and misted some British eyes by reciting a bit of original verse entitled I Am Returning Home...
...Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here to be the instrument of American policy abroad." His most famous line burbled up during a BBC documentary on the Royal Family. When the Queen asked about his housing arrangements, Annenberg answered: "We are in the ambassadorial residence, subject of course to some of the discomfiture as a result of the need for elements of refurbishing and rehabilitation." (That redecoration is now finished, at a personal cost to Annenberg...
...Desert Island Discs, a popular BBC radio program that asks celebrities what books and records they would want with them on the proverbial desert island, the questions were put to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 82. No problem with the book. Montgomery unhesitatingly chose his own History of Warfare, emphasizing that its most valuable passages deal with "how we could stop people fighting." That question is now foremost in his mind. Asked to choose his favorite disc, the old soldier could not decide between The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Oh, For the Wings of a Dove...
...background to last week's celebrations was a retrospective of Coward's career that was unprecedented even for as oft-revived a writer as he is. A parade of his plays and revues flickered past on BBC-TV. The National Film Theater began to spin out a series of his films. Occasions like 70th birthdays tend to bring out hyperbole, and uncritical reassessments blossomed in the press. Some critics went so far as to rank him with Sheridan and Wilde, or to call him England's greatest living playwright. Such judgments overlooked the extent to which Coward...
...play ran in London and New York until 1964 when Miller left it to direct several BBC productions, in-clouding "Alice in Wonderland," a modern adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic. "I tried to portray the feeling of a Victorian childhood in it," he said "I wanted a Wordsworthian interpretation, connecting her loss of innocence with the dream of adolescence. I'm not sure if it was right for television. It was very somber and quite literate...