... tattooed with the motto, I Love Alice; especially if her name is not Alice. Ambitious men always buy big studs and the workhouses of the United Kingdom are littered with guests whose collars burst open just as they were being interviewed for lucrative ...

... plot. And unwillingly she remembered old people, in what amounted to a uniform, coming out of the grim pile of a London workhouse. Maybe, she thought, it needed Barry Mercer to show me my own town. Barry succeeded (Continued on page 61 n hiring a car ...

... employed it as a House of Correction and Blue Coat School. In 1729 it was transferred to the Guardians of the Poor for a workhouse and for the maintenance and apprenticing of sixteen nominees of the Corporation who were called Blue Coat Boys. The annual ...

... never a home: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here, might have been written over the gates, for this was once the workhouse-- Thame Workhouse, Oxfordshire. We know that the more fortunate meant well when they built these chains of institutions across the ...

... voyage. The liner stewardess has been by tradi tion dressed in a uniform so near that of a nurse in the death-ward of a workhouse that the mere sight of her must have sent hundreds of thousands of impressionable travellers to their berths with a sickness ...

... the oldest part of Cerne. That honour belongs to the giant figure cut in the face of the chalk on the hill facing the old workhouse, which became a Youth Hostel to cater for the tramps of the modern genera tion. Without doubt the giant is a prehis toric ...

... physical changes at the Grey Coat Hospital. Incendiary bombs fell on the buildings in April 1941 and completely gutted the old workhouse part of the Hospital, although parts of the Queen Anne front remained. This shell, however, had to be demolished when the ...

... tractors. And his tone has all the compassion of a Victorian philanthropist who has saved two of the deserving poor from the workhouse. All the old dears are in steam and they all go out and earn their coal and water. Snow-ploughing, corn-threshing, tar-spraying ...

... rise, the pastry was far from light. If you in the kitchen offer us such another, we reply in the words of the Victorian workhouse men: We don't want your Christmas pudding, you can stuff it up the chimney. What can we hope to see in 1958 Bigger and better ...

... paintings Tooth's Gallery, Bruton St. to 13 July. FIRST NIGHTS Saville. Pickwick 4 July. Chichester Festival Theatre, The Workhouse Donkey, 8 July, The official British entry for the Berlin film festival was The care taker, celluloid version of Harold Pinter's ...

... are Uncle Vanya, a revival of last year's big success, and the first produc tion of a new play by John Arden called The Workhouse Donlcey. Many critics applauded Joan Plowright's performance as Shaw's heroine, ranking her with the creator of the role ...

... THE WORKHOUSE DONKEY Scenes from John Arden's new play-- at the Copacabana Club. Below left: Frank Finlay as the Donkey himself, an old Labour town councillor. Below Robert Stephens, Alison Leggatt and Marion Mathie THE third production of this year's ...