Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again in New York this week. But you are lucky to be in Cambridge. The performance here is no chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...
...even with the noise and nonsense of Kilty's syphon squirting and the hilarious performance of Thayer David as Sir Andrew Aguecheck, the production has more substance than the usual farce. Donald Stevens is a thoughtful and detached clown. While Robert Fletcher's griping, prissy interpretation of Malvolio excludes all customary pity for his plight, it does not justify the brutal treatment he receives from the fetching chambermaid, Jan Farrand, and her licentious colleagues, Sir Tobey and Sir Andrew...
Professor Haberler was surprised at the extent of the devaluation and also at its coming despite Sir Stafford Cripps' assurances that it would not "But at least we can now be fairly sure that there will not be any further devaluation in the near future," Professor Haberler says...
...incessant border squabbles along the bleak mountainous boundary between independent, isolated Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of Arabia, are, as one British diplomat put it, part of the "burden of empire." Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor...
...Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary lights (18th Century Poet Laureate William Whitehead), businessmen and barristers...