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Synopsis
War! War in England! Growled by thoughtful, stern-visaged men, gasped with bated breath by pale-faced, terrified women, the startling news passed quickly round the Avenue Theatre from gallery to boxes. The crisis was swift, complete, crushing. Actors and audience were appalled. Though it was a gay comic opera that was being performed for the first time, entertainers and entertained lost all interest in each other. They were amazed, dismayed, awestricken. Amusement was nauseating; War, with all its attendant horrors, was actually upon them! The popular tenor, one of the idols of the hour, blundered over his lines and sang terribly out of tune, but the hypercritical first-night audience passed the defect unnoticed. They only thought of what might happen; of the dark cavernous future that lay before.
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About the Author
About the Author Anglo-French writer William Tufnell Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was a journalist and novelist. He was also a diplomat and flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909. He had many interests, including broadcasting music from his own wireless station before radio was available. His books include the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906) which was a phenomenal bestseller.
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