Word: fotheringay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Could Work Miracles (London Films). When, for his own amusement, one of the god-like creatures who inhabit the firmament of Author H. G. Wells decides to endow a single mortal with the power to work miracles, his choice by pure chance lights upon George McWhirter Fotheringay (Roland Young). No one is more surprised than Mr. Fotheringay at what consequently happens when, in the course of a public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls...
...stage setting ready for the actors to come on and speak their lines. These lines are from "Pendennis." You will remember that exquisite comedy scene in which Dr. Portman espies from the Dean's garden through an open window the hapless Pen in the act of proposing to the Fotheringay! Here it is, at Lowell House and in Thackeray...
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