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...same advantages which prompted the Scot to join the Englishman in the successful amalgam, which with Wales, became the United Kingdom, do not exist so far as the Korean and the Jap are concerned...
Monty Woolley has doffed his smirk and wisecracking manner, but he's retained all his spark and individuality as the gruff title character of the "Pied Piper." The saga of one Englishman's battle to escape the rush of the Nazi armies through France, and of the waifs he picks up on his way, the "Pied Piper" is an original and highly effective film account of one of the dramatic episodes of this...
...Robert Standish" is a pseudonym for an Englishman about whom the publishers say they know nothing. The Three Bamboos is a novelized version of the history of Japan's famed House of Mitsui (Japanese for "The Three Wells"). It pictures that family as a succession of brilliant, cruel and profoundly devious fanatics, a power in Japan, dedicated for 50 years to a gamble for world conquest...
Sanders was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father (an Englishman) ran a rope factory. He went to England as a child, became an athletic star in three schools, wound up at the Manchester School of Technology, "where for some extraordinary reason I thought I wanted to learn about textiles...
Monty Woolley, beard and all, carries some of his "Man Who Came to Dinner" characteristics with him as he takes over the role of a crotchety Englishman caught on the Continent by the war. Englishman caught on the Continent by the War. Although he has thus created a character somewhat different from what author Neville Shute probably intended, he has nevertheless done a beautiful job on a part which, if not written for him, was rewritten by him to suit his own tastes...