Word: lambethman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-wave broadcast, rebroadcast on U.S. medium wave, was fifth of 13 in the BBC-CBS series Transatlantic Call (Sun., 12 noon, E.W.T.). "Plenty of doughboys come down to look at Lambeth Walk," said one Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...
...Lambethman recalled "the greatest Lambeth boy of them all" when he was a "Mumming Bird" (an entertainer) around the place-Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin himself, from Hollywood, closed the broadcast. He painfully remembered having to walk down three flights of rickety, narrow stairs from his "three and sixpence" lodgings "to empty those troublesome slops...
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