Word: wren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...
...monumentum requiris, circumspice-is the apt epitaph of England's great Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, his architectural monument. The monument is not Wren's alone: within the high-domed, Italianate majesty of St. Paul's on London's Ludgate Hill lie British immortals Nelson, Wellington and Jellicoe. Transepts and chapels bulge with toga-ed statues to admirals of the fleet, generals of the line, with monuments to famous victories...
Lily Pons: Program (Columbia, 6 sides). The Met's little wren perches on a high E and holds it in Caro Nome from Verdi's Rigoletto. Just as showy are Heinrich Proch's Theme and Variations for Soprano Voice and David's Charmant Oiseau from La Perle du Brésil. Performance : excellent...
...flight of winding stairs, terrified a bobby-soxed copy girl and brushed aside two proffered sacrifices-a reporter and an assistant editor, both of whom quickly identified themselves as "not the man you want to see." The marines finally reached the office of cigar-chewing Managing Editor William C. Wren. They told him in purple, ear-banging marine lingo what they thought of the editorial. Said the marines politely: apologize for the slur, or give us space to reply...
While his alarmed subordinates put in a riot call, Editor Wren tried delaying tactics: "Look, I only take orders from my commanding officer, just like you." He had not written the editorial, he said; it came canned from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away...