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...years Dustman Sidney Cooper collected the trash and garbage of Cheshire's bustling, dusty Borough of Bebington (pop. 47,000). Then Queen Elizabeth came to town...
...aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and all Bebington was astir to greet her. Streets were hung with naval pennants, shopfronts blossomed in bunting. As bobbies took up stations along the main street to the shipyards, Bebingtonians by the thousands pressed close to cheer the royal Daimler as it sped past. Dustman Cooper was spending the day as usual, driving his garbage truck through the streets, and taking what satisfaction he could from the fact that his truck was a spanking brand-new one, red and shiny as a fire engine...
...Queen Elizabeth drove down the main street, waving graciously to her cheering subjects, Dustman Cooper became confused. He took a wrong turn, and a moment later found himself driving along the selfsame street as the Queen and not 30 yards behind. The jovial crowd spotted his new cart and, after the Queen had passed, broke into renewed cheers for the dustman. Bewildered Sidney waved his hand uncertainly and smiled a smile of dumb thanks. Behind him in the cart, three helpers smiled and waved like royalty. The crowd went home, and Sidney Cooper had a fine tale to tell...
...present production is a charming one to look at, a fairly good one to sit through. Raymond Massey is a little too heavy as the professor, Melville Cooper a little too broad as Eliza's drinking dustman of a father. But Gertrude Lawrence as Eliza, if not quite pathetic enough in her serious scenes, shows enormous vivacity in her comedy ones. Between them, she and Shaw provide a merry evening...
Charlie Evans, Cockney dustman, plugged steadily at his job of collecting garbage in Chelsea borough. He worried a bit about his son Charles, his son-in-law George, both in the Royal Navy, both probably somewhere in the Channel. But what got him proper hot was a report that Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to go to France with the troops.† Said Evans: " 'E knows 'e mustn't go out of the country. 'E's Minister of Defense, and if they tried something 'ere where would we be without 'im? In times...