Word: bridson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
...Bridson spent three months banging about the U.S. before doing his first show: An Englishman Looks at Chicago. His half-hour script, presented by professional actors, was a notable job of interpreting a city known mainly to Englishmen for 1) gangsters, 2) rudeness. Wrote...
...Alaska Highway ("a highway that would stretch from Paris to Moscow") was covered by Bridson in a first-rate script that caught the U.S. idiom ("Boy, I never knew anything could be so cold. It must be about a thousand below"), the feel of the country ("Spring . . . the air's full of the sound of running water, the gurgle of streams and the chatter of rivers below the ice"), and the temper of the men who built it ("Eight miles a day-and only a thousand miles...
...When Bridson got around to Brooklyn last week, he was stymied. After investigation he had decided that "in some ways Brooklyn seems to me the most English place in America." He gave the professional actors a rest and let the Brooklynites speak for themselves. He was about as successful as anyone could be at trying to seize such a slippery phenomenon. Star of the program was an unreconstructed drugstore-lunch-counterman, who spoke his mind in profound Brooklynese regarding some of his more rugged customers...
...Manchester-born Englishman who could not go to college because he had to earn a living, Geoffrey Bridson got so bored selling insurance that "I just found myself starting poetry." He became a protege of T. S. Eliot, began writing for BBC eight years ago. One of BBC's most prolific writer-producers, he has many a notable show (The March of the '45, Transatlantic Call, etc.) to his credit...