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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Exiles are a group of 24 Harlem businessmen who play for relaxation, occasionally travel to Boston, Newark and Philadelphia to engage other amateur clubs. The Camerons keep open house for the cricket elect at their place of business. Photographs of noted players cover the walls; on display is the Trinidad trophy cup; in a billiard room are kept the wickets, bats and balls; there or in the yard at the rear, the Royal Exiles foregather to practice batting strokes and exchange the news of the cricket world...
Manuscripts that are on display include an original letter of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish hero of the American Revolution, to Governor Clinton concerning construction work at West Point...
...exhibit put up for the occasion. A denim-clad curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...barbershop, presided over by a boyish-looking blond with marcelled hair, was a lush display of Hollywood leg art, clipped from U.S. magazines...
...best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting. Father Fitzgibbon might have been any brogue-rippling old male biddy. But as Fitzgerald portrays him-senile, vain, childish, stubborn, good, bewildered, stupid-he is the quintessence of the pathos, dignity and ludicrousness which old age can display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest at all." Instead he is subtle, gay, debonair-a wise young priest whose arresting resemblance to Bing Crosby never obscures...