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...textile mill district, 45-year-old Socialist John Edwards launched his campaign with a rally of 3,000 vociferous supporters in King George's Hall. From now until election day, John Edwards will campaign from soapboxes at the mill gates and in the workers' canteens; he will tramp Blackburn's narrow streets in a steady house-to-house canvass, and he will make numberless speeches to street-corner gatherings from his loudspeaker...
...stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...
Funny as it is, the movie would be funnier if the scripters had not overworked their incidental gags at the expense of the best one: Kaye never really gets a chance to exploit the comic notion of the tramp who feels his oats as a big shot. The trouble may be that the picture tries too hard to keep Kaye sympathetic...
...girls: "Who torments you?" At first, they did not know. Only after a dish of "witch cake" (a blend of rye meal and the sufferers' urine baked in ashes) was fed to a dog, were their tongues loosened. Betty Parris named Tituba; the others also accused a village tramp and a matron who did not attend church regularly...
...August, it was all too plain that austerity and high taxes and a dearth of rich American visitors had decimated the crop of sportsmen. Grouse shooting is an expensive sport; each bird costs its slayer an average of ?1 ($4)..Fewer beaters were available; the sportsmen often had to tramp around the moors flushing out their own birds, instead of waiting decently in ambush. There were plenty of birds: King George bagged 60 his first day. The London Times unbent to give a grouse-eye view of the situation...