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This bit from H.R.H. was all to the good, but His Majesty's Government recently permitted their British Broadcasting Corp. to do full justice to the great issue What Is An Englishman? Employed to answer was brilliant Harold Nicolson, son of Edward VII's late great Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. Son Nicolson today is perhaps the Empire's most entertaining biographer of statesmen recently deceased, from his own father to Lord Curzon. Broadcast...
...program speech, logically considered, this was sheer bumbling and burbling, but such purely emotional talk from an Englishman like Stanley Baldwin goes straight to English hearts. Voters feel that he cares more for his bucolic pleasures, his famed pigs and still more famed pipe, than for the pig iron that made his late father a multi-millionaire and got him into Parliament...
...best dance records in England. But only three blocks away from St. Thomas' last week, Ray Noble began a job which any young musician might envy. He undertook a long-time engagement in the window-walled Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center's smart night club. Significantly, an Englishman was bringing dance music to the country which supplies Europe with most of its jazz...
London police this week found a well dressed, be-monocled Englishman sleeping in an ash can, having started to sit up all night to get a view of King George's Silver Jubilee and imperceptibly slumped in, dozed off. Scotland Yard decided that to control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove...
...comes close to Chekovian penetration in the scene in which the wife, verging on collapse, daubs her face with cold cream while pouring out her anguish to a husband whose attention is distracted by a bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...