Definitely ENSA
t„ ERE was not much argument about it during the war—visits to le0Ps by performers of one sort or another, especially by girl recteers, were a good thing. It could be suggested that they were at ast as good for the morale of the troupers as of the troops especially Wh ell People were apt to forget that the middle two letters of ENSA :Ileod for 'National Service.' The horrors of war fade quickly and ..,ere is a merciful tendency to remember only the better shows at rrrison theatres or on the temporary stages carted around in three- °niters. Why then should theatrical writers insist on spoiling such rosy "Litefflories by devoting so much of their autobiographical work to recording the pleasure they gave and the dangers they th'u? Invariably the most tedious chapter of any post-war life is de °Ile about how the artist roughed it overseas and how' the boys' adored it. Now here is Nal. Coward, who might have known better, devoting most of three hundred pages to his war service as a Drtt ,°Pagandist, carrier of messages between very important people, .entertainer. tiv:Hls last big autobiographical work, Present Indicative, ended with the Production of Cavalcade. He has had some stage successes since 0;41 and has become a figure in the film world too. The theatrical unnin-S -
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