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This second recorded English comedy involves a quarrel between Dame Gurton, Jack Prudden '42, and Dame Chat, Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled by Master Bayly, Charles Breuning '42, who finds the needle in a surprise ending after Dr. Rat, William Musgrave '42, has failed...
...Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters for virtually nothing. They held...
...could be called the star of the performance, it was Drue King '43, who sang the solo part of a spiritual, "Sit Down, Servant...
Spiritual: Sit Down, Servant...
...peace even in the hereafter, you will consign me to Hell! Then you will no longer hear me, but I can assure you that I will continue to stammer my thanks even there. Until that moving catastrophe will have occurred, I will once more presume on your kindness. . . . Your servant, eternally devoted to you with heart and blood...