Word: crumpets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious plonker," confesses the hero of All Neat in Black Stockings. "You know, someone who shares his crumpet with his mates." Indeed, Ginger (Victor Henry) and his best mate Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) have a smooth little system for sharing the wealth. They bring the birds back to their adjoining digs, dim the lights, then trade rooms and partners. It's not as cushy as the setup in Two Gentlemen Sharing, but it gets the job done. At least, until Ginger meets Jill, "the special one" (Susan George). "It's been over three weeks and she's still...
Decayed Likeness. Turner's romanticism was directed more at his art than his private life. A reclusive bachelor till his death in 1851, he was more a stodgy old crumpet than the philanderer who, several biographers have hinted, fathered five illegitimate children. Though fame attracted him, he dodged the patrician world of fox hunts and fancy clubs, ended up living in a dilapidated London town house, cluttered with what he called his "darlings"-his paintings-or in a little Thames-side refuge where he was thought by neighbors to be a certain Admiral Booth, husband of the landlady...
...English, it seems, have never had the pleasure of eating English muffins unless they happened to come to the U.S. The closest thing they have to one is a toasted crumpet, which is about as close as a shrimp is to an oyster. And when playing pool in England, you can make a drastic mistake by complimenting someone on his "English." A Briton would prefer that you admired his "screw...
...orchestral musicians, my colleagues and I have long suffered under overpaid, mediocre leaders who have charmed the ladies of the symphony associations in the tea-and-crumpet circuit. I can only hope that Piatigorsky's book [Feb. 5] will help awaken the public...
Sandy Wilson, whose musical The Boy Friend (1954) was one of the few exceptions to the rule that a British musical is at best a sort of muted crumpet, has updated the old Boy by ten years. The sequel, now playing the West End, is called Divorce Me, Darling and spoofs the very same characters. In this one, however, the time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang...