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...miles from the Communist front lines southwest of Shanghai, in the city's smartest residential section, a fresh-faced young Chinese officer stood before a bluff, hearty Englishwoman. Behind him stood several soldiers, holding baskets of wood shavings. They had come to burn down Mrs. Gladys Hawkings' house because it was "in the line of fire." Said firm, 58-year-old Mrs. Hawkings: "Young man, I was living in this house before you were born. This is my home and I intend to stay...
...Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...
TIME asked an intelligent, young middle-middle-class Englishwoman to describe how a year of Labor had affected her family's well-being and political attitude. Her answer tells a lot about how a nation of political experimenters is reacting to one of their most courageous and most dangerous experiments...
...hometown again, the amateur company immediately put on three sellout performances ($1.25 top) in the municipal Playhouse Theater. Director Gweneth Lloyd, energetic Englishwoman who founded the Winnipeg Ballet in 1938, had three new productions in her repertory: Les Coryphées, inspired by Degas' paintings and set to Tchaikovsky music; Kaleidoscope, a suite of national dances; and Dionysos, a mythological affair. Like 15 other Lloyd ballets, including An American in Paris from the Gershwin score, these were choreographic originals...
Sample comment: British slums are due not only to the "industrial revolution but also to the inefficiency of the Englishwoman as a housekeeper...