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...Brown's School Days (R. K. O.). When classic-loving, copyright-hating Producer Gene Towne, fresh from Swiss Family Robinson, proceeded to lay his busy hands on Thomas Hughes's 83-year-old celebration of Rugby and British public-school life, across the Atlantic to Hollywood came a cold shudder. "Presumption," snorted Rugby's head, Mr. Hugh Lyon, anticipating something worse than Robert Taylor's A Yank at Oxford. Mr. Lyon was not placated by Producer Towne's choice of a British director, Robert Stevenson, and of the impeccable Sir Cedric Hardwicke to play...
Next day there was a great waving and yanking of the old school tie in the House of Commons. Up rose Sir Annesley Somerville, ex-Eton master, to ask what would become of Britain without the public-school spirit. Cried Laborite H. B. Lees-Smith: "Life in a boarding school is a crowd life, a herd life. . . . This unnatural system has resulted in virtually two nations. The masses, educated in State-controlled day schools, never come into contact with the sheltered lads of Harrow and Eton...
...thought to be Scotty, propagandist and master of ceremonies on the twice-weekly Cabaret in English on the Nazi radio); 3) Henry William Wicks, onetime London insurance man now living in Germany with his Nazi-minded wife. Listeners got into learned dispute over his accent. It was aristocratic, public-school, phony. Novelist Rose Macaulay pronounced it "a slight provincial accent (Manchester...
...first decade (1924-34), Manhattan's municipal WNYC existed largely as a sort of rehearsal hall for singing firemen, whitewing bands, etc., a public address system for Tammany functions. But in 1934, when Fusion, LaGuardia & Reform took over, WNYC got a thorough house cleaning. It went in for more symphonic music, civics, education programs that now reach some 350 public-school classes, a daily market guide compiled by a staff that tours the markets from...
...terror more harrowing than the physical horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...