Was Re: SC - Yorkshire Pudding

Sue Clemenger mooncat at in-tch.com
Sat Sep 23 18:16:39 PDT 2000


Harry Lauder (an actual relative from my mother's side of the famil6)
was indeed a vaudvillian.  Don't know about this Stanley Holloway.  The
poem certainly does have that kind of "sound," doesn't it?
- --Maire

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> 
> "Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:
> >
> > > Cindy, this is marvelous. <chuckle>  Is that Stanley Holloway, the
> > >British actor??
> > > Thanks for the lift to my day.
> > >
> > > Prydwen
> >
> > No idea, sorry.  Glad you liked it!
> >
> > Cindy
> 
> Just a guess, mind you, but I'd say it's pretty likely the same Stanley
> Holloway, who was, I believe, a lowland Scot (or am I thinking of Harry
> Lauder?) and who was (this part I'm sure of) a vaudevillian and
> music-hall performer long before his career on the "legitimate" stage
> and in movies began.
> 
> The poem is probably really a song performed in a music-hall; it seems
> to have the kind of rhythm for that.
> 
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
> 
> troy at asan.com
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