Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in a letter to Variety from Surrey, England, famed Producer Charles B. Cochran lamented: "I was getting going again, but Hitler put me right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house...
...Father Knickerbocker, care Ralph S. Foss or Howard Reid, Harvard Club," from Charles H. Watkins '09, chairman of the entertainment committee of Boston's Harvard Club. It read: "2 Aprosoxuals, 5 auhedonists, 4 serendiptists, total 11, arrive at Pennsylvania Junction nine five. Have Herediah harness roans to four-seated surrey to meet us . . . your local constable might be helpful because several flips already consumed at this early hour. Prepare warming pans to get dampness out of beds. We bring our own night pails." A welcoming committee 100 strong went to the station to meet the delegation, but found only...
GOLDEN ASHES-Freeman Wills Crofts-Dodd, Mead ($2). Inspector French bumbles through arson and murder in a complicated case stemming from the unsuccessful transmogrification of a plain Chicago citizen into a baronet in Surrey...
...Mean Get-out." In England, white-maned David Lloyd George, 73, the little Welsh lion who galvanized and led the British in 1916-18, has appointed himself a scourge to the Chamberlain Government on the subject of Food. His model farm at Churt, Surrey is but part of his credentials as Food expert: he revealed last week that he faced (and averted) a moment in 1917 "when we were within three weeks of having no bread in the country." Last week, speaking at a luncheon in London's swank Dorchester Hotel, he cried: "I have one message...
Died. Music Hall Comedian Harry Tate (real name: Ronald Macdonald Hutchison), 67, Britain's W. C. Fields; of heart trouble, after being struck in the head by anti-aircraft shell splinters; in Surrey, England...