Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program exclusively designed for American listeners. Known as Britain Speaks, the new show, now a fortnight old, is a vast improvement over the stodgy stuff that BBC used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American...
...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...
Last week's situation was fraught with distractions to worry a commander on an unparalleled scale. In the beginning German parachute troops poured down, sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored breastplates and flame-throwing tanks with crews in suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact...
...Bolger can, still dance with the best of them, and a girl named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
...intervention, free from partisan politics. In sharp contrast with this policy, the Crimson now repudiates the entire Democratic Party by maintaining that "the first essential is to get rid of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and the entire present administration." And at the same time, it grasps a sputtering torch for Senator Robert A. Taft...