In the short story “The Street That Got Mislaid” by Patrick Waddington, the main character, Mark, who works at the filing section of the City Hall and takes pride in his job, stumbles upon a lost index card labelled “Green Bottle Street.” Shocked at his finding, Marc decides to. Emma and I, Control Tower, the Street That Got Mislaid, the Unbelievable Ripley (1 large print) reader digest condensed book on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers.
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The following passage is adapted from Patrick Waddington, The Street That Got Mislaid, ©Patrick Waddington, 1954.
Marc Girondin had worked in the filing section of the city
hall's engineering department for so long that the city was
laid out in his mind like a map, full of names and places,
intersecting streets and streets that led nowhere, blind alleys
5and winding lanes.
In all Montreal no one possessed such knowledge; a dozen
policemen and taxi drivers together could not rival him. That
is not to say that he actually knew the streets whose names he
could recite like a series of incantations, for he did little
10walking. He knew simply of their existence, where they
were, and in what relation they stood to others.
But it was enough to make him a specialist. He was
undisputed expert of the filing cabinets where all the
particulars of all the streets from Abbott to Zotique were
15indexed, back, forward and across. Those aristocrats, the
engineers, the inspectors of water mains and the like, all
came to him when they wanted some little particular, some
detail, in a hurry. They might despise him as a lowly clerk,
but they needed him all the same.
20Marc much preferred his office, despite the profound lack
of excitement of his work, to his room on Oven Street
(running north and south from Sherbrooke East to St.
Catherine), where his neighbors were noisy and sometimes
violent, and his landlady consistently so. He tried to explain
25the meaning of his existence once to a fellow tenant, Louis,
but without much success. Louis, when he got the drift, was
apt to sneer.
'So Craig latches on to Bleury and Bleury gets to be Park,
so who cares? Why the excitement?'
30'I will show you,' said Marc. 'Tell me, first, where you
live.'
'Are you crazy? Here on Oven Street. Where else?'
'How do you know?'
'How do I know? I'm here, ain't I? I pay my rent, don't I? I
35get my mail here, don't I?'
Marc shook his head patiently.
'None of that is evidence,' he said.'You live here on
Oven Street because it says so in my filing cabinet at city
hall. The post office sends you mail because my card index
40tells it to. If my cards didn't say so, you wouldn't exist and
Oven Street wouldn't either. That, my friend, is the triumph
of bureaucracy.'
Louis walked away in disgust. 'Try telling that to the
landlady,' he muttered.
45So Marc continued on his undistinguished career, his
fortieth birthday came and went without remark, day after
day passed uneventfully. A street was renamed, another
constructed, a third widened; it all went carefully into the
files, back, forward and across.
50And then something happened that filled him with
amazement, shocked him beyond measure, and made the
world of the filing cabinets tremble to their steel bases.
One August afternoon, opening a drawer to its fullest
extent, he felt something catch. Exploring farther, he
55discovered a card stuck at the back between the top and
bottom. He drew it out and found it to be an old index card,
dirty and torn, but still perfectly decipherable. It was labeled
RUE DE LA BOUTEILLE VERTE, or GREEN BOTTLE
STREET.
60Marc stared at it in wonder. He had never heard of the
place or of anything resembling so odd a name. Undoubtedly
it had been retitled in some other fashion befitting the
modern tendency. He checked the listed details and ruffled
confidently through the master file of street names. It was not
65there. He made another search, careful and protracted,
through the cabinets. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Once more he examined the card. There was no mistake.
The date of the last regular street inspection was exactly
fifteen years, five months and fourteen days ago.
70As the awful truth burst upon him, Marc dropped the card
in horror, then pounced on it again fearfully, glancing over
his shoulder as he did so.
It was a lost, a forgotten street. For fifteen years and more
it had existed in the heart of Montreal, not half a mile from
75city hall, and no one had known. It had simply dropped out
of sight, a stone in water.
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| Born | 19 August 1901 York, England |
|---|---|
| Died | 4 February 1987 (aged 85) |
Patrick William Simpson Waddington (19 August 1901 – 4 February 1987) was an English actor, educated at Gresham's School at Holt in Norfolk.[1] He was born and died in York, England.[2]
Biography[edit]
Waddington was the grandson of William Waddington, the piano manufacturer who also took over the management of the Theatre Royal York.[3] After an Oxford education, he started his career singing, and in the 1930s was in That Certain Trio with Peggy Cochrane.[4][5] On stage from 1924, often in upper-class roles, his theatre work included the original West End run of Patrick Hamilton's Rope in 1929; a lengthy tour of My Fair Lady, as Colonel Pickering, in 1963-5; and the musical Kean on Broadway, in 1961.[6][4][7][8][9] Film and TV included The Wooden Horse (1950), A Night to Remember (1958), and two episodes of Dad's Army, as 'The Brigadier'.[10]
In 1951 he became General Secretary of TACT (The Actors Charitable Trust) and was headmaster of its children's home, Silverlands, until 1953.[11][4] A plaque to commemorate him can be seen in the Courtyard entrance to the Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York - he was a member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York from 1933 to his death in 1987.[3] In 1986, he self-published his autobiography, Patrick: Or, That Awful Warning.[3]
Filmography[edit]
- If Youth But Knew (1926) - Arthur Noel-Vane
- Loyalties (1933) - Augustus Borring
- The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935) - René
- The Black Tulip (1937) - Cornelus Van Baerle
- Journey Together (1945) - Flight Lt Mander
- Gaiety George (1946) - Lt Travers
- School for Secrets (1946) - Group Captain Aspinall
- The Clouded Crystal (1948) - Jack
- It's Not Cricket (1949) - Valentine Christmas
- That Dangerous Age (1949) - Rosley
- Stop Press Girl (1949) - Airline Director (uncredited)
- The Wooden Horse (1950) - Senior British Officer
- The fire lake where the old man walks (1956)
- Wideawake (1957) - Male, senior
- The White Cliffs Mystery (1957) - Matrion
- O.S.S.: Operation Big House (1957) - German Ambassador
- Rx Murder (1958) - Sir George Watson
- The Moonraker (1958) - Lord Dorset
- A Night to Remember (1958) - Sir Richard
- Battle of the V-1 (1958) - Air Marshal (uncredited)
- Play of the Week: Mary Stuart (1960) - Leicester
- Naked City: The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half (1960) - Mitcham
- The Jazz Age: The Outstation (1968) - Lord Hollington
- Armchair Theatre: The Mandarins (1969) - Sir Henry
- Dad's Army: The Showing Up of Corporal Jones (1968) - The Brigadier
- Dad's Army: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker (1969) (Lost) - The Brigadier
- Department S: Who Plays the Dummy? (1969) - NATO General
Bibliography[edit]
- Waddington, Patrick S. (1986). Patrick: Or, That Awful Warning. Self-published. ISBN0-951132601.
References[edit]
- ^'Patrick Waddington'.
- ^League, The Broadway. 'Patrick Waddington – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB'. www.ibdb.com.
- ^ abc'Autobiography of Patrick Waddington - Borthwick Catalogue'. borthcat.york.ac.uk.
- ^ abcMcFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN9781526111975 – via Google Books.
- ^Pathé, British. 'That Certain Trio'. www.britishpathe.com.
- ^'Production of Rope - Theatricalia'. theatricalia.com.
- ^'My Fair Lady – Hippodrome Heritage'. birminghamhippodromeheritage.com.
- ^'Patrick Waddington - Theatricalia'. theatricalia.com.
- ^League, The Broadway. 'Kean – Broadway Musical – Original - IBDB'. www.ibdb.com.
- ^'Patrick Waddington'. www.aveleyman.com.
- ^http://www.noelcoward.net/pdfs/Noel%20Coward%20and%20the%20Actors%20Orphanage.pdf
External links[edit]
- Patrick Waddington on IMDb
- Patrick Waddington at the Internet Broadway Database
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