Category Archives: Cinema/Visual/Audio

round table: plays about war dances

The high spirits of the 1920’s. A circle of young, exuberant wits, Robert Sherwood among them, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Naturally, in such a world, Robert Sherwood was … Continue reading

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Brits in hollywood: teatime on sunset strip

…And the jolly old empire remained in firm hands. The pre-WWII British colony in Hollywood was a way of life that disappeared. The Age of the Perfect Gentleman was gone to be replaced by Brits to play light comics, silly … Continue reading

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Brits on wiltshire boulevard: working holiday in the sun

But WWII was the beginning of the end of the British set in Hollywood. The age of the perfect gentleman had passed. The war created a new kind of Englishman, who now began to turn up in Hollywood, while the … Continue reading

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hollywood: age of perfect gentlemen

Hollywood. The British home away from home in the 1930’s. The great period of the British set was in the 1930’s, when it established itself as an informal club under the leadership of the two imperial fire-eaters C. Aubrey Smith … Continue reading

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waterloo sunset in hollywood

The golden era of the British in Hollywood in the 1930’s… …Then the Munich agreement was signed, and the crisis, for the time being, was over. The agreement, now historically damned as a symbol of appeasement, was nonetheless greeted with … Continue reading

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algonquin: table of notables

Bigger than life in a larger than life America of the roaring twenties. They were the high spirits of those times. A circle of young exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table at the Algonquin in New … Continue reading

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algonquin hotel: robert e. sherwood

Lunch at the Algonquin hotel was a study in public relations and a spectacle in itself. The participants formed the “vicious circle” and they represented the high spirits of the 1920’s. This circle of mainly young, exuberant wits regaled Dry-Era … Continue reading

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Brecht: don’t look back

Somewhat shakily, tottering, revelation and the spiritual in art managed to survive intact after being banged around from the forces of the new objectivity.It is an absurd state of mind Brecht was latching onto to express alienation in a form … Continue reading

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burroughs: stepping into silence

Sexually transmitted viral traumatic fear. Contagion as the drug of the ruling class and the fear it engenders and the forces of conformity it gives rise making up the essential moving gears of the control machine. William Burroughs and modern … Continue reading

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algonquin follies

From 1919 on, a circle of young exuberant wits, the twenty-somethings, regaled Dry-Era America from around a hotel table at the Algonquin. Nothing quite like them has been seen since… Since 1914 Robert benchley had been contributing to Vanity Fair … Continue reading

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