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...only pub in No Place, the pitmen agreed that they would not abandon No Place without a fight. The pits still had 30 or 40 years' working in them, they argued. The Rev. Ronald Halstead came over from his vicarage in West Felling, a mile away, to organize a protest meeting...
Eddie Chapman is a gay dog. International society intellectuals like Director John Huston admire his mind, and blondes his wire-and-whipcord body. He can keep a pub in fits of laughter or a softly lit drawing room at hushed attention. He is Mayfair's favorite criminal ("I'd like you to meet Eddie Chapman, my smuggler friend. Tell us about the jobs you've pulled lately, Eddie"). And low society in Britain pays him homage, for in his time, Eddie was the prince of safecrackers. After the war, it became apparent to all his acquaintances that...
Enter the bustling chaplain (Alastair Sim), rubbing his -hands. "Brrfssk! Ah! What have we here?" He has, for his first assignment as a World War II entertainment officer, a British army camp. The troops, he soon discovers, would rather have a pint at the village pub than enjoy the weekly entertainment provided for them by a group of patriotic ladies known as the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet. The daring chaplain decides to compromise and give the boys a local talent quiz show...
FEBRUARY-Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable...
...efforts of a small village trying to thwart the stuffiness of legal procedure. Faced with losing their venerated by uneconomical railroad service, the population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive for having the railroad, provides sufficient opposition...