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...stodgy stuff that BBC used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...
...above is the real McCoy. Mr. Priestley's recipe (TIME, Feb. 19) when finished must have the consistency and digestibility of a rubber bathmat and need a hacksaw to "cut in squares." No authentic Yorkshire Pudding was ever "turned over" to be "done on the other side." It has the temperament of a soufflé and should be treated as gently...
...pour batter in quickly and return to same position in oven. In ten or fifteen minutes it should be brown or crisp. Then turn pudding over and brown other side about ten minutes. Cut in squares and serve with gravy from roast. This makes four generous servings. W. E. PRIESTLEY Seattle, Wash...
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...PEOPLE SING-J. B. Priestley -Harper ($2.50). An old-time music hall comic, an exiled Czech professor, a somewhat sickening heroine (who does not sicken her author) become the storm centre of a three-sided feud in small Dunbury. The argument is of industrialists v. landed snobs v. common people-over which class shall have the use of the Market Hall. Abetted by a lot of old-fashioned plotting and comic incident and by a drunken representative of Old England At Its Best, the workers win, and every good person gets what he was after. Thus combined, Author Priestley...