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...refugees from Chinese Communists on the main land, but many have joined the church since fleeing from the Reds. The old ways are gone, and they want something to cling to, says the archbishop. "For more and more of them that something is Catholicism. Almost all the professors, tradesmen, generals and politicians on Formosa have accepted Christ...
...other lyrics, tradesmen are well instructed to respect the debts of the aristocracy because the debts go back for generations. And Actress Leila Martin, as Gwendolen Fairfax, sings coquettishly about the troubles one has selecting a hat while she lounges about her boudoir in ruffled pantaloons. All that could easily be little more than an unwelcome obstruction between the audience and Oscar Wilde; but Ernest in Love scores on its own through Lee Pockriss' music-engaging, deft, pleasantly hummable tunes that bob against one another like English strawberries floating in dry white wine...
...foreign commotions rarely bother them (though foreign milk is rarely safe). Nannies just order revolutionary mobs round to the tradesmen's entrance. "As far as possible," reported Anne Chermside, who was nanny to the infant Prince Fuad when the Egyptian revolution broke out in 1952, "I tried to see that he was oblivious of the drama and danger which surrounded him. Through everything, I saw that Fuad was brought up simply-always on English lines...
...glance, Akbet Jaber looks like any provincial Arab town. Snack bars display turnips pickled in pink marinade. Butchers hawk fatty, flyspecked mutton hanging from great hooks in the ceilings of their stalls. On closer inspection, Akbet Jaber is a town noticeable for the absence of two things: trees and tradesmen's signs. The refugees have refused to plant trees because it might indicate a willingness to settle permanently. And the potter, the shoemaker, the shopkeeper are reluctant to advertise for fear of losing their U.N. doles and, in the process, appearing better off than Arab propagandists are at pains...
...faithfully. Many now direct their hatred at those who in the days of "Papa's Algeria" created the conditions that provoked the rebellion: the big absentee landlords; the inefficient officials who allowed the predatory caïds to rule as they pleased; the illiterate smalltime clerks, policemen and tradesmen who lorded it over the Moslems, despising, humiliating and at the same time fearing them...