Word: wigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treks. The provinces have been booming ever since the blitz drove actors out of London, and an evacuee audience with them. Towns like Bath, Cheltenham, Exeter, formerly one-night stands, now have A-1 ratings. Wigan, Lancashire (long a music-hall synonym for the end of the earth) recently had a full-fledged drama festival. Transportation for actors is by rail, and the same as for ordinary citizens -cramped, slow, supperless...
Died. David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, 69, Premier Earl of Scotland, 18 years an elected member of Parliament, onetime Lord Privy Seal, elder brother of Sir Ronald Lindsay; of pneumonia; in Wigan, England...