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...bang out of plenty of noise, lots of blood and even more thunder, with some excellent aerial photography thrown in then "A Yank in the R. A. F." is almost sure to make you sit up and ask Winston for more. It's as much fun as hissing Hitler in the newsreels...
...next week of a competition for all boards, the Harvard Radio Workshop has started its fifth year of undergraduate extracurricular study of radio drama techniques. The Workshop's first essay into crime plays is "The Corpse in the Classroom," the opening drama in a collection of six blood and thunder tales to be presented over the college network in the near future...
...including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
Longstreet was still defending himself when he died in 1904. Last week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...