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...Edward of Wales are so familiar in London dance halls and saloons (TIME, Feb. 7, 21), that when he motored out to Hastings, Sussex, last week, past fields of primroses all in saffron bloom, Britons wondered if His Royal Highness would not tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda, one of these good girls would...
...music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family find that she has loved not wisely and entirely too well. Stephen becomes a poet, whose small success is not justified by the execrable outpourings of his muse so unfortunately quoted by Prose-Writer Sinclair...
...mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...
What Price Glory (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio). Those who have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...