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...Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms...
...Britain, most popular television stunts have been telecasts of public events like tennis matches, boat races, fights, the Coronation. Recently, Londoners saw BBC Commentator Thomas Woodrooffe eat his hat before the television camera to keep a promise made in a sports broadcast. The hat was made of sugar-coated cake...
...relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received no relief money for herself and her three children since mid-April. The Barindt larder contained a can of salt, a box of starch, a cake of soap and an onion...
...heroism was his good-natured new chief, Lieutenant Vincent Doyle, also a retired ship radio operator. The Doyles and Rogerses struck up a warm friendship. When Lieutenant Doyle's little daughter was taken ill, the lieutenant lunched every day with the Rogers family. Whenever Mrs. Rogers baked a cake, her husband took a piece to the Doyles. And it soon became clear that, if anything happened to Vincent Doyle, George Rogers would probably inherit his $3,200-a-year...
...Frank Harding published a Cake Walk version of I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from Balfe's opera, The Bohemian Girl. The skies did not fall, but ever since then it has been good publicity: 1) to jazz a well-known classic or dead-serious folksong, 2) to goad a few naive busybodies into protest, 3) to pretend that the incident is splitting the world of music into two opposing camps of foamy-lipped zealots...