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Shelagh Delaney, 24, and Bernard Kops, 37, are none of these things. They graduated into the welfare state from two of the most ferocious slums in Brit ain: she from one of the uglier neighborhoods around Manchester, and he from the ghetto of London's Stepney and Bethnal Green. In the nature of things, the stories of their own brief lives are more manifesto than reminiscence. Delaney pokes out her pert proletarian tongue at the Establishment; Kops throws a whole coster's barrowful of dead haddock. Both have produced fascinating documents and useful items for those who like...
Sparrows deals with the inhabitants of the colorful Stepney area of London's East End, where the whole picture was filmed. It tells the tale of a rough but appealing seaman who returns from two years of duty to learn that his doll of a wife has set up housekeeping with an unhappily married bus-driver; and it builds to a riotous climax in the Red Lion...
...stone tower of the Anglican Church peal over sheep meadows and farmers' plots, over royal parks and public playgrounds. The town is small; only six trains per day chuff up to the dead-end terminal to disgorge the Cockney families from Wands-worth or Chipping Norton or Stepney who come to enjoy a day on the river...
Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Adams House and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the ski team yesterday. Poindexter, the best cross-country man on the team, concentrates in the Nordic events...
When the pubs open in London's dockside district of Stepney at 6:30 pm., once a month the Rev. Cecil Edwyn Young starts making the rounds. Among the cheery, bleary gatherings, he finds some of the best customers for his parish paper at threepence a throw. The customers, in turn, find smiling Anglican Young's publication like no parish paper they ever saw before; it is crammed with up-to-the-minute movie reviews, theater chitchat and interviews with Hollywood stars, usually illustrated by photographs of the star and Interviewer Young. The advertising columns carry...