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...Edith Lutyens, niece of famed English Royal Academician Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. As Miss Lutyens was on the point of leaving London Sculptor Epstein impulsively put it in her care. It was not even wrapped. Before she got to the boat tram air-raid alarms sounded. "The blitz was quite strong and the guns were cracking off and shrapnel was whizzing about," said Miss Lutyens, describing her flight later. "I was absolutely terrified that it would be hit or have a hand or its head knocked...
Just back from England after five months as a London correspondent for the Herald Tribune, Steve Greene '37 yesterday told of the vast shift in sentiment toward the United States. "West enders used to hiss every American that came on the screen back in September when the Blitz first began," he stated...
...Mental illnesses of all kinds have greatly decreased, and hospitals which formerly dealt with neurotic cases have now opened their wards to Blitz casualties. London divorce cases have also dropped about 50% because, according to a prominent lawyer, "People are ashamed to dwell on their own emotional troubles...
Where The Cradle Will Rock salted its proletarian thesis with genuinely funny satire, No For An Answer lacks wit - al though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented...
...Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children's entertainments, seemed to evoke Christmas memories of better, bygone times...