Noël Coward
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Ninety Years On: Directed by Michael Mills. With Noël Coward, Arthur Askey, Wilfrid Brambell, Patricia Bredin. A live variety show on the eve of Winston Churchill's Ninetieth birthday, comprising of music and comedy sketches from the past 90 years and a look at Churchill's life.
- Michael Mills
- 1964-11-29
- Comedy, Musical
- 95
- Deep Crisis
- Violating Standards of Decency
- Types of Barbarity
When Waugh began writing Black Mischief in late 1931, England was in deep crisis. The 1929 financial crash and the Great Depression sparked political skirmishes over domestic and foreign economics. At the general election of October 27, Ramsay MacDonald’s National government was elected in a landslide. MacDonald had been prime minister of the minor...
Black Mischief was the Book Society choice for October 1932. The Book Societywas an interwar subscription book club established in 1929. Members were often from non-metropolian UK or English dominions, such as Australia, and used the Book Society to access new English books that were otherwise hard to get. The result was that Waugh’s novel did quit...
In his 1962 preface to the third UK edition, Waugh identified the primary theme of Black Mischief as “the conflict of civilisation, with all its attendant and deplorable ills, and barbarism”. As the phrase “attendant and deplorable” suggests, no European character or institution is set up as a positive model. Waugh the Tory-anarchistexposes the par...
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Synopsis. A live variety show on the eve of Winston Churchill's Ninetieth birthday, comprising of music and comedy sketches from the past 90 years...
A live variety show on the eve of Winston Churchill's Ninetieth birthday, comprising of music and comedy sketches from the past 90 years and a look at Churchill's life. Awards 1965 : BAFTA TV Awards: Best Director TV Series Comedy (Michael Mills)
