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...Priestley, solid Briton of letters, and tiny Minister of Education Ellen C. Wilkinson were separately moved to loud tuts by a Hollywood importation...
...declared Priestley, "but to offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...
...shilling, pocket-sized monthly attracted such leading talents as J. B. Priestley, W. H. Auden, André Gide, T. S, Eliot, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender. Between their bylines he sandwiched pieces (bought for a few pounds apiece) by hopeful unknowns...
...Priestley-now less & less a novelist, and more & more a pamphleteer-also admits that he sheds no tears for individual enterprise. "Modern man is essentially a communal and cooperating man. . . . We have no Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare. But we accomplish what would seem miracles to our forefathers ... by our new pooling of knowledge and our superb teamwork. When the American O.W.I. . . . showed us the film they had made about [TVA] . . . I felt as deeply moved as I would have been by a noble work...
...Tommies who might find his program drab. Author Priestley offers an unexpected inducement-a jihad against bluenoses: "I should like to see the English, once they had done their share of the community's work, doing what they damned well pleased; and refusing once and for all to be bullied by highly organised little gangs of teetotallers, Sabbatarians, and all the unloved and the life-haters. The chief freedom the English people need now is the freedom to have more fun. without regard to the feelings of sour-faced old women and envious...