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...country, but in London, being mostly costers, dressed in a manner which befitted this calling. The Army, except of course in wartime, consisted almost entirely of senior officers, most of them in the Secret Service. There were two universities, one at Oxford, and the other at Cambridge. Cricket and football were not much played and-possibly as a consequence-there was a great deal of crime...
...Vancouver Island, B.C., Lonsdale began with six boys. Today Shawnigan Lake School has 100 boys and 27 masters. One-third of the pupils come from the western U.S. They are easily distinguishable when they return home by their habit of sirring adults and by their preference for "rugger" and cricket. Shawnigan Lake's spartan Tudor dormitories, school ties, daily chapel and iron discipline are still modeled after the England Lonsdale knew 35 years...
...Fancy Free (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is another Disney movie that mixes cartoons and live actors. The master of ceremonies is Jiminy Cricket (voice by Cliff Edwards), a faintly oppressive optimist who tries to sell the audience on the debatable idea that in these troubled days the best thing one can do is laugh at cartoons and listen to Dinah Shore. As it turns out, one could do a lot worse...
...mind" sequences are neither novel nor completely clear. At least the purpose of the whimsy in the Pinocchio--Jiminy Cricket combo was evident from beginning to end, but here Massey's mind is a rebellious servant, while Massey minus mind is a master. The idea is frightening, betokening perhaps a now return to sentimental emotionalism, where we send though packing and live in a make-believe world of noble savgery...
Chirp. A wristwatch with an alarm based on the principle used by male crickets to produce their chirping (they rub a saw-toothed edge on one front wing against the other) will soon be put on sale by Switzerland's Vulcain Watch Co. The name: Vulcain Cricket. The price...