Word: dustman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present production is a charming one to look at, a fairly good one to sit through. Raymond Massey is a little too heavy as the professor, Melville Cooper a little too broad as Eliza's drinking dustman of a father. But Gertrude Lawrence as Eliza, if not quite pathetic enough in her serious scenes, shows enormous vivacity in her comedy ones. Between them, she and Shaw provide a merry evening...
Charlie Evans, Cockney dustman, plugged steadily at his job of collecting garbage in Chelsea borough. He worried a bit about his son Charles, his son-in-law George, both in the Royal Navy, both probably somewhere in the Channel. But what got him proper hot was a report that Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to go to France with the troops.† Said Evans: " 'E knows 'e mustn't go out of the country. 'E's Minister of Defense, and if they tried something 'ere where would we be without 'im? In times...