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...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
After experiencing a well-earned nervous breakdown. Leckie is brought round to his bourgeois salvation by the advent of Alison's baby and World War II. Registering for military service, he wondered what to put down as his profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808, sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, last night elected Dan K. Finkelstein '62 of Kirkland House and Merion, Pa., to serve as president. Also elected were Robert C. Kogan '62, vice president. Alison C. Wheeler '63, treasurer, and David N. Klausner '62, secretary...
...Taylor's Ko-Ko lacked some of the vocal finesse that this role could use, but his acting was very funny. Alison Keith was again Gilbert's answer to Medea, (this time as Katisha); again struggling through the songs and plunging through the hamming like an old pro. Joan Rosenstock contributed some more pleasant singing, and William Jacobson and Merry Isaacs rounded out the cast of principals. George Nelson and Barrie Wetstone handled the piano score ably, and musical director Burton Dudding kept everything going nicely...
...friend of hers, who begins by hating Jimmy, crumples into his arms with incredible rapidity when Alison leaves him, and considerately vacates his bed when Alison comes home, Claire Bloom seems understandably tentative in a role that Mr. Osborne never finished conceiving. Garry Raymond is quietly admirable as Cliff, and Dame Edith Evans, in a brief appearance, makes an old Cockney woman thoroughly Dickensian and lovable, striking almost too simple and cheerful a note in a perplexed and perplexing film...