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...rash child (Actor Curtis) of the 14th century who doesn't know his own father. To find out who he is, the young man takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
...nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies had landed in Normandy...
...Milord the Major. In World So Wide, Sinclair Lewis is again the Midwesterner who discovered the world and could not get over it. In one passage which almost recaptures the spirit of Dodsworth, Lewis observes: "Mr. Henry James was breathless over the spectacle of Americans living abroad and how very queer they are. . .But just how queer they are, Mr. James never knew. He never saw a radio reporter, never talked to an American Oil Company proconsul gossiping in the Via Veneto about his native Texas . . . Mr. James's . . . young American suitor, apologetic for having been reared...
Last week, an unexpected champion arose for the millions who cannot tell Chicken Marengo* from Escalope de Foie Gras Talleyrand† from Surprise Omelet Milord- from apple pie a la mode.†† The champion was a writer for Budapest's Communist daily Vilagossag, who (he related in his column) recently walked into a "people's restaurant" and promptly had his appetite ruined by an item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol...
...read children's stories over the BBC. She took part in open-air Shakespeare productions in Regent's Park, rising from walk-ons to lines like "Will you go hunt, milord?" There was one incandescent moment when Producer-Director Michael Powell noticed her in an agent's office (he remembers her as "a plump little dumpling who was obviously going places") and wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most...