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Hero is a stubby, handle-bar-whiskered old Yorkshireman named Sam Small, a former millworker who invented the Small Self-Doffing Spindle and retired. He and his round, loose-tongued wife Mully talk and act with the comic simpleheartedness which might have developed, but never quite did, from the funny papers at their best. They are as kindly, cantankerous, well-hitched a couple as fiction has seen...
...Flying Yorkshireman made Knight famous when it first came out in 1936. Air-conditioned by NBC's Arch Oboler (1940), it has been repeatedly broadcast...
Perhaps because of this fact, ultra-respectable King George last week sent a telegram of congratulation and commendation to N.o.W.'s roly-poly, pink-cheeked, 74-year-old editor, Sir Emsley Carr, a shrewd, kindly, self-made Yorkshireman (knighted in 1918 for his war philanthropies). The occasion was Sir Emsley's 50th anniversary as News of the World editor...
Main part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working lass. They meet, spar, land in a haystack, any their uneasy affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence...
...rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen, is now under commitment to write the screen play for The Flying Yorkshireman. When he discusses radio, he is fond of such pronunciamentos as: "The very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something to say that hasn't been said before quite in the manner in which you say it." Unfortunately Arch Oboler has never managed to live...