And we'd already have achieved it if everyone was as enlightened as me

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If this spring were not this spring, I would have noticed sooner that today is Denholm Elliott's centenary and done something about it, but instead I coincidentally read the script of a play in which he originated a part—I had been looking for it for some time, having come to despair of ever seeing a production—and that will have to do. Have the cast of Twelfth Night of Stalag VIII-B, Elliott's Viola at center.

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Where in heck did they get the costumes??

From the opera house in then-Breslau, according to Michael Dobson's Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History (2011)! Chocolate and cigarettes were clearly the least of the tributes of an appreciative audience.