They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to… - Joyce Grenfell

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They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.

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About Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Irene Grenfell (née Phipps) (10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress and comedienne.

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Birth Name: Joyce Irene Phipps
Alternative Names: Joyce Irene Grenfell Joyce (Irene) Grenfell
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I don't understand Ethel.
I don't, I don't really.
She's one of my very best friends,
Just about the best, nearly.
She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is,
Dainty and refined,
I mean she'd never do or say
Anything unkind.
But get her inside a stadium
And she seems to go out of her mind.

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