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Young Man in Tweeds. For Frankie Waldron, those months between postcards were an odyssey. He had fled the U.S. on a passport made out to "Paul Walsh." Reggie had followed him as "Mrs. Walsh," presumably taking Timothy with her. Frankie went to Europe, probably stopped in at Moscow, went to South Africa, on to China, then back to Moscow...
...music and lyrics carried the main weight, however. From overture to final chorus, the songs were the strong point. All types of musical comedy song were well accounted for. "Passport and a Sigh" and "Halcyon Days" are truly fine solo numbers on the popular-song level; "Tomorrow is Manana" and "Anygnay" made exciting production numbers; and the lyrics in "The Best Things in Life Are in 'Life' " and "They Can't Get Along Without Me" made these ensembles the top numbers of the show...
What happened after that, she implied, was partly the fault of the U.S. itself. She described being called to the U.S. Embassy in the spring of 1941; there a "gruff and uncivil" vice consul "snatched" her passport away from her and refused to give if back. She was still so loyal to her country that she "went all to pieces" when she learned of Pearl Harbor. But when she was asked to sign an oath of allegiance to Germany she did so. "It is obvious," she said, with a shrug, "that one has to live, somehow...
...four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will break my neck...
...Their Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told...