Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show, bright and British as a redcoat, rose to the occasion. It was a political parable about two youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime...
Donald G. Sears '47--Joan Fox (Wellesley...
Alfred C. D'Alessandro '49--Joan D. Prohist (Wellesley...
Peter S. Hadley '49--Joan Kendig (Dean Jr. Coll...
...remembers Susan's (Joan Fontaine) sister and brother-in-law (Rosemary De Camp and Henry Morgan), brat-beset and waterlogged in poverty; and how, despite that portentous domestic scene, he and Susan got engaged that evening. He remembers the long, sickening period after he was laid off (from a turret lathe), when he pawned his tools, and pounded the pavements, while Susan's work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only...