[lit-ideas] Turn Out The Lights And Go To Bed

 
In a message dated 10/30/2004 3:28:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I  remember as a student
> researching the effects of the Peace of  Versailles and reading, "The
> lights are going out all over Europe" and  viscerally feeling the despair
> of those desperate  times.


You are thinking of Sir Edward Grey, in 1914.

_http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/grey.htm_ 
(http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/grey.htm) 
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Oddly, I was reminded of a crooner's number:


"Turn Out The Lights And Go To Bed" 
 
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Not to mention Chick Henderson's wartime hit, "Till the lights of London  
shine again". 
 
(I remember the first of the songs has a nice verse to it, but can't seem  to 
find it. I believe Dennis Potter used it in perhaps the film version -- with  
Steve Martin -- "Pennies from Heaven"?)
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 
 
 


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