Word: edwardianism
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Minus the monocle and orchid boutonniere he used to affect even while hunting, semi-retired Edwardian-style Playboy Nubar Gulbenkian,* fiftyish, son of the greatest wheeler-dealer of them all, the late billionaire Five-Percenter Calouste Gulbenkian, showed up in Britain, his old playground (he now lives in Portugal), sipped a spot of liquid warmth before riding off to a hunt in Buckinghamshire...
Except for the low, seven bob price of tickets and the high, Edwardian bob of loitering Teddy Boys, the American theatregoer might mistake London's Piccadilly for a circular Broadway. The King and I, Bell, Book and Candle, Kismet, and Tea House of the August Moon are all current favorites. Such dubious U.S. attractions as The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and Johnnie Ray have Britons queueing up patiently for each performance. And adapted American productions like My Three Angels and Ondine have found a home here also...
Footsteps in the Fog (Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
...keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than his pseudonym, Flambeau. To play this sort of thing in any but the Edwardian dress and spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track Dr. Moriarity with radar and an all-point bulletin. Still, Guinness and Peter Finch, as Flambeau, do their best to ignore the modern trappings of police and society, and to behave like brilliant amateurs, who are good...
...British Eugenics Society, founded in Edwardian days, is a group of 500 peers, schoolteachers, scientists and other earnest people devoted to encouraging "the better members of the community to have more children, and the worse to have less." To date, the society has largely stressed the second half of its program. It flatters itself that it has had considerable success in this phase of improving the British breed, e.g., passage of a 1913 law prohibiting marriage for mental defectives, increased use of contraceptives by slum-dwelling Britons. Last week in London, Cambridge Physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 67, the society...