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...Astaire has gone and joined the Navy when Miss Rogers, a fine broth of a lass, refuses to marry him on the grounds that matrimony will ruin her career. The picture depicts Astaire's return and Rogers' reconciliation, as well as a more or less uninteresting subplot about another sailor and another girl. But the characters seem happy enough all the way through, and it is evident that none of them takes the plot too seriously...
...Borrowing luscious details from the London Mirror account, she told how the happy newly weds headed for their bedroom (pink sheets) at Broadlands and how at a stair landing, "Philip looked down and put his arm around his bride's slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess of Milford Haven had given Philip, such as Cuddle Up a Little Closer or Bess, You Is My Woman Now. (Julia guessed wrong...
...fiction is livelier. James Hanley's The Road, a tender tale of a sailor's discovery that his family has been blitzed, and Anna Kavan's Face of My People, a pathos-laden account of a neurotic veteran's resistance to psychoanalytical probing ("They've taken everything; let them not take my silence") are good, solid if not world-shaking stories. Also worth watching is William Sansom, who can't yet create characters but who has a captivating way with machinery...
Househunters huffed loudly when Philip and Elizabeth were given huge Clarence House, once the London home of Queen Victoria's "sailor son," the Duke of Edinburgh, as an extra residence. Rationed housewives snorted at news stories of visiting royalty wining & dining at public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
...commenting on student social work in an Old Sailor's Home, the Harvard Illustrated Magazine observed that "The four walls of a student's room mark a narrow horizon." Today, in an even more closely interdependent and socially conscious society; the evision of many Harvard men towards the community surrounding the college seems bounded by the same limitations. It is easy to remain oblivious to the needs of a world outside the Houses and feel satisfied with a tight little circle of friends and what extra-curricular activities the University has to offer. With only three percent of the student...