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...ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...
...daylight V.F.W. funmaking provoked fewer hooligans. Proudly the veterans of four wars, 30,000 strong, paraded for five hours through a confetti-tossing mass of cheering New Englanders. Bostonians managed a grin at the placard behind a strutting Lone Star bugle corps: "The horse Paul Revere rode came from Texas...
...wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...extremely broad. Probably nowhere in the world can you find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...
Already in World War II scores of returning U.S. fighters are discovering the multiple meanings of the world-old placard "Home Sweet Home...