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...KIND OF ANGER by Eric Ambler. 311 pages. Atheneum...
Obviously, Director Jules Dassin isn't. In Topkapi, adapted from a tidy thriller (The Light of Day) by Eric Ambler, he has pulled off the niftiest caper seen on screen since the jewel job he engineered in Rififi. As in Rififi, unfortunately, the rest of the film seems a bit Dassingenuous. The director's jokes are often too laboriously explained, and the camera's adoration of Melina Mercouri, the great love of Dassin's life, is sometimes boring and always embarrassing...
Although his valet, Miles, was among the wedding guests, none of Ambler's family was present. He had explained that his 68-year-old mother was too aged and frail to make the journey. The groom's uncle, Norman Ambler, who breeds dogs at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera and was also uninvited, scoffed at the story. He described his sister-in-law as spry and active, but added, "However, she is something of a religious fanatic-she is liable to start quoting the Scriptures at everyone. That may be one of the reasons John...
...bride was serene until she reached the church vestibule, when she broke down and had a good cry. Margaretha then joined 150 guests at a reception under a domed, plastic tent. "Typical English weather," muttered Ambler, eyeing the falling rain. Then the newlyweds dashed for their car, which had been decorated with a sheaf of wheat, symbol of fertility. As they drove away, Ambler caught a handful of rice in the face, remarked, "It makes me feel like a wounded pheasant." After honeymooning in Sardinia, Mr. and Mrs. John Ambler will be at home at Wilton Crescent in London...
Married. Princess Margaretha, 29, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and John Kenneth Ambler, 40, well-to-do British commoner; in a Lutheran ceremony witnessed by 7,000,-000 Swedes on TV; on Oland Island, Sweden (see THE WORLD...