Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
Since the war, Nicole has played in Cairo, Prague, Tel Aviv, Brussels and London. She falls head over heels in love with each new city in turn. Last week, she was in love with Manhattan-its Philharmonic ("It leefts"), its Automats, its Empire State Building. If Nicole had her way-no matter where she was-she would give a concert every night. "I am never nervous. Only very, very happy. And very, very sad when it is over...
...Ideal Husband (London Film; 20th Century-Fox) is not one of Oscar Wilde's best plays, but it has enough edge and style to make the run of plays look oafish. Alexander Korda's screen production of it is short of ideal, but it is distinctly something to see and hear...
Since the early part of 1943 a group of B-17s had been operating from an obscure village 50 miles northeast of London. "We were lucky. . . we only lost one-half of our crews in the first three months...
Code & Confederates. In London during the early summer of 1940, Gilbert Renault, onetime businessman and would-be movie producer, found the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence Section) of General de Gaulle's forces represented by one young officer in a cubbyhole. He asked for a mission in France not because he knew anything about intelligence work but because he wanted to see his family again...