Music: God Save the King

Best-selling popular songs in London are Tolchard Evans' Forty Million Churchills, Noel Coward's London Pride, and Michael Carr's The Day I Met His Majesty the King. Food shortages have brought forth such appetizers as Hugh Charles's & Sonny Miller's Potato Pete and the sad-refrained:

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you lay me an egg for my tea?

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you try to supply one for me?

Get into your nest, do your little best, get it off your chest, I can do the rest.

Hey! little hen! When, when, when will you lay me an egg for my tea?

Not the most popular, but by all odds the smartest of the lot is a song satirizing superannuated officers of Britain's Home Guard, which brilliantined Bard Noel Coward wrote and has been plugging since his return from the U.S. Title: Could You Please Oblige Us With a Bren Gun?

With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade

It's rather hard to guard an aerodrome.

So if you can't oblige us with a Bren gun

The Home Guard might as well go home.

Name of a new song by Bert Stevens and Larry Wagner: Whistler's Mother-in-Law. Name of a recent Hollywood composition: The Girl With the Popular Front.