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...vaudeville is all but extinct, it has, at least, a reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high prices and audiences queue up in multiple thousands. Strung out along a seven-mile waterfront promenade, Lancashire's Blackpool could well be called the world's foremost indoor resort. The salt air that attracts so many Britons to the edge of the Irish Sea is so often filled with raindrops that all comers are driven inside to watch everything from burlesque with pratfalls to ballet with waterfalls...
...years ago, there were some 60 variety houses in metropolitan London, and today there are none, but in Blackpool the vaudes are often more numerous than the swimmers. Despite "bracing breezes" that raise goose-pimples in August, the crowds come to Blackpool-more than 8,000,000 a year. Last week, when resorts in less invigorating climes were already shuttering up, Blackpool began the biggest six weeks of its season, a grand finale known as the "Street Illuminations," when the city's thoroughfares are a carnival of flamboyant tableaux, ranging this year from a lurid facsimile of Botticelli...
Last week, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, its beaches deserted by all but the sea gulls, its skies greyed over, some 2,000 Laborites assembled gloomily for Gaitskell's promised post-election "inquest." From the outset, Hugh Gaitskell took the offensive: Labor must drop its demands for nationalization or "be content to remain in permanent opposition...
...Labor's last government, was in the awkward position of arguing: "We can do it better." Last week, with unemployment dropping and installment buying at an alltime high, Britain, was riding a wave of prosperity so general that even a delegate to the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool echoed Macmillan's airy slogan, said: "We've never 'ad it so good." According to the Gallup poll, the Tories were 5½ points up on the Socialists, enough to return them with perhaps twice their present 60-seat majority in Parliament...
Tube Much, Tube Soon. In Blackpool England, Health Inspector Frank Sugden, after a survey of 200 homes in the industrial town of Morley, reported that only three had bathtubs, six had hot water four had their own toilets, but 125 had television sets...