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...Britannican Lyrics. To demonstrate his fitness, Coward took over this week as master of ceremonies on a 90-minute BBC television tribute to Sir Winston Churchill on the eve of his 90th birth day. Noting all this, the Times of London felt moved to write a tribute to Coward too. "Here, through and through, is a craftsman," explained the Times, "who has remained at the top of his profession for longer perhaps than any other living English playwright, simply because he has dedicated his life not to attitudes or to transient theatrical movements but to getting on with his work...
...kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...
Germany's Hans Vogt invented the "speaking film" (Britannican for "talkie...
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