Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first time by women, releasing the men for war action. London night life revived. The Cafe de Paris, an official public air-raid shelter for 200, packed in more than that...
Most popular of London's oracles is Old Moore, who writes for the Sunday Dispatch. Of him, Prime Minister Neville
Only astrologer of World War I still living is R. H. Naylor, who predicted the war two years before it happened, said it would last approximately four years. He introduced astrology to London's press in 1930, now enjoys what is said to be the biggest private practice in England. This time Naylor, writing for the Sunday Express, was too cautious to foretell war or peace. But last week he gave his opinion of war's outcome: "It will end suddenly and for reasons no man can know or foresee. The centre of government will shift to Canada...
Bible of all astrologers is the French prophet Nostradamus, who died in 1566, leaving behind him a book of cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...
Last week World War II found War Illustrated back on the streets of London after a lapse of 20 years. Publisher was William Ewert Berry, now Lord Camrose, proprietor of a mammoth chain of newspapers (including the Daily Telegraph), and one of Britain's fabulous press peers.† Its editor was 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton (knighted in 1932), greyhaired but husky as ever...