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...Every Hedgerow. Not likely to be confused with the Grenadier Guards, on their regular Sunday drill the Home Guards nevertheless looked like able fighting men. A two-year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy...
...Guard has made Britain almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...
...practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle Repertory Playhouse; the Cleveland Play House; and here in Boston, on a lesser scale, the New England Repertory Company, a brave little organization, constantly gaining in support...
...From hedgerow, lawn and wooded hill
Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...