High up in the playing cabin, a carillonist — invisible to passersby below — released the bells' magic into the winter sky.
Meeks & Watson and The Verdin Company replaced all the clappers and headpieces, constructed a new galvanized bell frame, playing cabin, keyboard and action.
But he also plays a cabin boy, store clerk, tribesman and a demure wife, complete with blond ringlets, to Denholme Cavendish Hugh Grantt).
At the same time, the spaces the refugees inhabit in the play — detention cabins, telephone booths, boat decks, hovels — are small, tight, claustrophobic, and mean.
Max Pirkis, who played the cabin boy in that film, spent a week on the London Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary column a few years after the release of the film.
"I'm tall and my legs usually hang over the sides," she said with a laugh during our chat backstage at MerleFest before she played the Cabin Stage between Hot Rize and Trampled By Turtles.
Laughing out loud at anything in any movie, whether it is playing on the cabin system or on your own DVD player, is fifty dollars per incident.
Evenings at Gala were spent as a family in our cabin, playing cards to the insistent ding of sheep bells outside.
"I enjoy things," said the retiring inventor, who stays fit by playing tennis in Cabin John and whose cellphone ring tone is Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". "I have given away a lot anonymously.
