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... . With this sweet expression and in these weeds BRAITHWAITE, D.B.E., mourns the old gentlemen whom with the kindest intentions she and Miss Alary Jerrold nightly murder in 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand. The play has run for three years, through air-raids and attacks from doodle-bugs and V-2s. It has been seen by almost every member of the Royal Family and by nearly three-and-a-half ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES By ALAN KEMP Too Much With Us. If it were not for the evidence of the calendar and the temperature, I should decline to believe that Christmas was on us once again. But that is a way that Christmas has. It is always coming or going. You may think it is a long time ago, or a long way ahead, but it is waiting to pounce. It haunts you all your life, and, however hard you try, it ...

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- We have formed a Society for the Encouragement of Eccentricity, and this is how it happened. We were talking one day about everybody being so depressed just now, and how bored they are with everything, and Lady B. suggested we should get up some informal Concerts in Faith's drawing-room during the winter and ask people who were fond of music to come and listen ...

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- This house is terribly shabby and the distemper on the landing has begun flaking off and falling down on our heads like snow, which is very seasonable, of course, this cold weather. Charles said it reminded him of the transformation scene in a Pantomime. If this is a Pantomime, I said, tripping over my broom, then I 'm Widow Twankey. Of course you are, said ...