[lit-ideas] Turn Out The Lights And Go To Bed
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:39:45 EDT
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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