Word: savoyism
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...sound bitter it is because may familiar at the Shrine of Savoy begrudges all time taken from the libretto and score. Even a biographical version by the pair themselves wouldn't be well received under the circumstances--unless, of course, it was in the form of a G & S operetta...
Said an Inland Revenue man succinctly: "Capital gains and expense accounts." Capital gains, whether they come from stocks, real-estate deals, or bets on the Derby, are untaxed in heavily taxed Britain. One financier recently made ?200,000 free and clear in three months in a foray into Savoy Hotel stock. The expense-account economy has been brought to a fine degree of urbane perfection. Firms buy their executives limousines with money that would otherwise go to the government. The country house is almost invariably a "farm" which regularly loses deductible money every year...
...when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars. His friends called him Freddie, and last week the name caught on all over Britain. Amply subsidized by the British government, Freddie took a suite in the Savoy, bought a hat and slipped out to see his old friends...
...Paris, Buchwald sees "anyone who is in the news," has become as much of a celebrity as many of the people he interviews. Once when he complained "how difficult it is to get into the Savoy in a dinner jacket borrowed from a waiter," one of his readers sent him a hand-me-down tuxedo which he still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told...
Gilbert & Sullivan (London Films, Lopert) is a thoroughgoing stomp through the old Savoy. Though it is well known that one Gilbert & Sullivan opera is more than most companies can produce successfully, the British team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (State Secret) have undertaken to produce almost all of them-and all at once, in this two-hour film-and to tell the life stories of Gilbert & Sullivan at the same time...