Then surely, Pottermints sweet company in Potter, a series of which I have never heard before.
....and that is my last guess. I am now at your mercy, am51; all yours.
....and that is my last guess. I am now at your mercy, am51; all yours.
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I had a quid on Italy, should have said win or place. Oh well, all good fun. Actually, the Azerbaijsn was rubbish wasn't it?Originally posted by amateur51 View PostC'mon, I said, c'mon Azerbaijan!!
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Bang on, Angle you beauty!Originally posted by Angle View Post
Arthur Lowe as Redvers Potter of Pottermints - slogan "Pottermints the Hotter Mints!"
The B is yours Angle - many congrats
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That took some doing even with your help, Am, and with Eurovision in the background, too.
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Oh, I love it!! See you tomorrow xxxOriginally posted by amateur51 View PostRubbish?
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Caliban, did you see the BBC biog of Arthur Lowe in their Reputations series which was repeated in 2008? I suddenly thought of it and find it's on YouTube in 5 episodes, well worth watching I think although rather sadOriginally posted by Caliban View PostIndeed, the sleazy Leonard Swindley
Arthur Lowe is one of my top heroes
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Apologies for the late start to the day. Now, not to be too taxing for the hour :
What B turned down two american bands, was celebrated gloriously in 1956 and began in Southampton Row?Comment
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Anna thanks for the link, but yes I did see it - indeed I have it saved on my video hard drive and have watched it several times, most recently with my dad (another Arthur Lowe fan) when he was staying at Easter. It is slightly sad, touching too, with his devotion to his wife holding back his career. She turned up as the tea room waitress in the 'Dad's Army' that was repeated on BBC2 yesterday. Dodgy actress!Originally posted by Anna View Post
I never saw the Potter programme though had heard of it. I wasn't aware that it was to do with confectionary. I assume it was on ITV which was rarely watched in our house when I was growing up - commercial TV and its rather 'proletarian' appeal was regarded with suspicion chez nous (indeed I thought ITV was actually inferior: 'Blue Peter' was far more classy than 'Magpie', 'Multi-Coloured Swap Shop' a cut or three above the vulgar 'Tiswas' and 'Generation Game' infinitely preferable to 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club'. I think I was rather a prig at the age of 11 :cool2
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Anyone spotted one of Arthur Lowe's first screen appearances, in the final scene of the sublime 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (one of my Top Ten films), where he pops up as a reporter who greets Louis d'Ascoigne as he steps out of the prison door?
There's a blue plaque for Arthur Lowe outside his London flat fronting the canal in Maida Vale just off the Edgware Road."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I'm sorry I haven't had time today to even look at Angle's puzzler, Sunday tends to be a catch up with family day via BT's free phone calls. (My sister is off to Norway on Friday on the QE II to float round the fjords and one brother has just completed a creative writing course)
Caliban, I thought you might have seen the Arthur Lowe programme and I quite agree with your BBC v ITV comments! I am definitely a Blue Peter girl, why the things I learnt to do with a bit of sticky-back plastic!!! I've been watching Fantabulosa again prior to embarking on the Diaries which arrived yesterday. And this post has nothing to do with Alphabet Associatons but it's grey, spitty and dull here and I feel really lazy (or, as Marilyn Monroe would say 'positively supine' Ducky!Comment
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John Barbirolli was born in Southampton Row, London.Originally posted by Angle View Post
He turned down his second contract with New York PO and an offer from Los Angeles PO.
In 1956 he gave the premiere of Vaughan Williams' Eighth symphony the score of which is inscribed "For glorious John, with love and admiration from Ralph."
Alongside Margaret Rutherford, JB is one of my heroes
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Mine too, Am
Full steam ahead to C.
Someone else is reading the KW Diaries, Anna. Who is it? I don't remember but I am interested to know how he is getting on with them.
It is not spitting here on the banks of the Mersey, it is just cold, very grey and pouring down. Anyone want any water ?Comment
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Cheers Angle!Originally posted by Angle View Post
Here we go ....
What C ...
Did not recognise his wife when they were introduced many years after their divorce?
Was an American citizen and was living in the White House when he died?
Appeared in a film with Bette Davis?Comment
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Not sure Angle, I think I am now Fantabulosaed out and will not embark on them for a while. Am's puzzle is intriguing, I just keep thinking of Oliver Sacks (i.e. hat+wife= unrecognisable) which is silly or Coolridge but he didn't die in the White House and as for Bette Davis, Crawford? I dunno. Just got a cd on now (how spooky, by someone called C), spitting has stopped, sun is out.Originally posted by Angle View Post
Edit: cd reminds me of love of me life so, I am reduced to goo and will retire in tears I expect. Oh, what a sentimentalist am I. No Hope Forgive me, I am now offline,Last edited by Guest; 15-05-11, 18:59.Comment
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[QUOTE=amateur51;55096]Cheers Angle!
Here we go ....
What C ...
Did not recognise his wife when they were introduced many years after their divorce?
Was an American citizen and was living in the White House when he died?
Appeared in a film with Bette Davis?
Expanded clues:
He appeared with Davis but not visually
He was born in Odessa
Plus ... he once had to be chased off-stage at a Prom by Tod Handley
C'mon , let's be having you!
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