[PW] Re: Ensa?

[Druzz]

DEAR EDWARD FRANCHUK:
The reference is NOT to Entertainments National Service
Association (ENSA), but to other ENSA (European Student
Nurse Association).
Remember, please: the phrase is said by a... nurse (Coward's character).

Sincerely yours,
Evandro da Nobrega [Druzz]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Franchuk" <ed_franchuk at hotmail.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: [PW] Ensa?



In Act 2 of Noel Coward's play _Fallen Angels_, Saunders, the maid, 
says: "I was in the desert with the Red Cross. I also visited several 
desert stations when I was with Ensa."

Any idea what Ensa is/was? I thought Google had answered the question 
when it turned up Entertainments National Service Association, a British 
organization for entertaining the troops during WWII, but the date is 
wrong: the play dates from 1925 and *that* ENSA wasn't founded until 
1939. Haven't had any luck with other Google leads either.

Edward Franchuk            \\\\=^..^=////

Collège militaire royal du Canada/Royal Military College of Canada
Campus St-Jean Campus

<http://vif.com/users/edfranchuk>

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the 
lesson after" (Vernon Law).

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