Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable to get his signature to a faked confession that the act was an attempted assassination with the knowledge of the British Government, the Nazis fling him into the ravine and leave him for dead. He escapes to England...
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Members of the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). A contemporary Englishman weaves dark traceries on a churchly strain, by a 16th-century court composer. Spaciously recorded by BBC's strings...
...Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than this...
...jerks along with the customary lack of continuity of the German film. Its Nazi-drawn characters are either snow-white or jet-black. Krüger is a simple, modest, wise Boer elder statesman. Cecil Rhodes (Ferdinand Marian) is a rich, conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens). Throughout...
...driver of a wartime ambulance in England was pleased to hear last week that one of his musical compositions had been loudly applauded. He had never heard the piece himself. The ambulance driver was William Walton, a tall, long-faced, 39-year-old Englishman who seems not to mind the gruesome sights of airraid victims, but says he hates the sweat and agony of musical composition. Nevertheless, William Walton has sweated out some of England's finest contemporary scores...