1. It was also performed, under the title "Legend of Paradiso", by the Berliner Ensembles in East Berlin, directed by Karl Weber.

2. Above, where I've quoted Ted's diatribe against the talentless and unforgivable Sydney Gordon - S.G. Joan Littlewood was the J.L.referred to there

3. ex-partner of Frank O'Conner, the Irish author, and later a authoress of some repute in her own right.

4. a non-gluten diet

5. second floor in North American parlance: first floor (as opposed to ground floor) in England.

6. Ella Winters and Donald Ogden Stewart, my mother Kate informs me, reading this mms. They lived in James Ramsey MacDonald's house.

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica

8. who had used the "nom de guerre", Gallo, in Spain.

9. "sugarless" means with a synthetic sweetener, the which caused the flatulence.

10. "Dialectical materialism is not a dogma, but a guide to action."

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