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Miss Julie displays far more effectively the genius of director Alf Sjoberg than that of Strindberg, for the visual effects threaten to swallow the story itself. Although the script changes barley a line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful flashbacks. As a result, Miss Julie dispels much of the tautness and unity of the play and frequently accentuates its dated melodrama. Whether a less imaginative transcription of Miss Julie would hold much interest for modern audiences is questionable, however. The place of Strindberg's picture of tormented souls...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, Nebraska's smooth, smart Frederick Andrew Seaton, 43, a practiced political hand who was Alf Landon's secretary during the 1936 presidential campaign, Harold Stassen's preconvention manager in 1948, and one of the top men in the Eisenhower movement last year. Newspaper Publisher Seaton (the Hastings, Neb. Tribune, and other Midwest papers) was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in 1945-47, served for a year as U.S. Senator, filling the vacancy created by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry. His new assignment: to improve relations between Engine Charlie...
...Being caught between two opposing sides in a cold war isn't fun," said Alf Hall. He pestered British officialdom with requests that he be reposted to Moscow, begged them to pressure the Russians to grant Clara's visa. This militancy was not appreciated by the Foreign Office, which believes its juniors should tend to their tasks and keep out of trouble. "For blotting my copybook," as he put it, Hall was transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Later, he was posted to Ottawa as assistant to Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat in the Commonwealth press office...
...each other-more than 400 letters. "The future looked so black," he said, "it was awfully hard to write. It was useless to discuss politics. We fell back upon endless analyses of books that Clara was reading-Shakespeare, Dickens, Jack London." When they could afford it, they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling...
Last May, when the Soviets were looking for small ways to prove how peace-loving they intended to be, the Russian embassy in Ottawa got in touch with Alf Hall. They told him to swear to a declaration that he still wanted to live with Clara and that he could support her. Last week, after seven years, Clara got her visa. It was hailed by the British press as a "new Soviet conciliatory gesture to Britain," as the Russians meant that it should be. But Alf and Clara had no concern for such talk. Clara called him from Moscow before...