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...their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company. At the opening night in Glasgow there were nothing but understudies...
...oldtime admirers hate to recall what happened to him in Hollywood. His more obvious buffoonery was played up, but the subtle, split-second comic counterpoint between Clayton, Jackson & Durante and their jazz band never penetrated Hollywood. In 1936 Jimmy gave himself a change by touring Europe. In Glasgow, his act so moved Sir Harry Lauder that the classic old Scottish comedian rose from his seat and joined Jimmy on the stage in spontaneous partnership...
...Glasgow police court, convicting a brothel keeper, describes her house as "a miniature League of Nations." In a Soho pub catering to all colors and nationalities, the barrel-bosomed proprietress deals thunderously with her conglomerate customers: "All right, you lovely people, it's eleven o'clock; get the hell out of here...
Virtue without Mortgages. Santayana's maternal grandfather José Borras, who "became a Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
...Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they were suddenly boxed in by the British light cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise...