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...cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
...Brattle Theatre Company will appear on Broadway next month in the Theatre Guild's production of Sir John Van Brugh's restoration farce. "The Relapse." Cyril Ritchard, who was recently starred in "The Country Wife" at the Brattle Theatre, will have featured billing...
...Brattle Theatre Company will appear on Broadway next month in the Theatre Guild's production of Sir John Van Brugh's restoration farce. "The Relapse." Cyril Ritchard, who was recently starred in "The Country Wife" at the Brattle Theatre, will have featured billing...
What a stinker Cyril Joad...
...sparked by Guest Speaker Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad,* a bearded, posturing professional pundit, the famed old Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 "that under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country." When graduate members, led by Winston Churchill's choleric son Randolph, tried to expunge this from the record, they were swamped 750 to 138. In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill somberly wrote: "It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root...