Winds in the East

You don’t always need a barometer to know when the wind turns. Bert, the lovable chimney sweep/chalk artist/one man band in Mary Poppins simply senses that something is changing.

“Winds in the east, mist coming in,” he sings, looking above the rooflines of turn-of-the-century London.

“Like something is brewing, and ‘bout to begin.” The camera pushes in ti…