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Humbert's obsession began in a dreamily distant beach resort where he met and desperately loved a girl-both being unlucky 13. Since Humbert is given to puckish literary references, the girl's name, of course, was Annabel Leigh (Poe spelled it Lee). After Humbert's early love is interrupted by shame and death, he incessantly searches for a return to that lost, childish kingdom by the sea. He searches through the mail order catalogues of Paris whoredom, through a low-comedy marriage, through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze...
After a series of lunches, Arthur lures Annabel to a cosy little supper at home while his wife is away on a trip. After a bit, he tips the coffee pot over Annabel's skirt. She whips it off and they dab de liriously at the affected parts. At this moment, the wife walks...
Novelist Green puts a needle in this tired situation that keeps it hopping for 248 pages of superb banality. Wife tries reprisal with husband's best friend, Addinsell, but loses nerve. Husband introduces Addinsell to Annabel to draw him off wife. Annabel plays Addinsell against Arthur. Then Annabel's best friend, Claire, betrays everybody by doing something natural, goes to bed with Addinsell. Arthur's wife, furious at the loss of a lover she never took, joins Annabel in a coterie of insulted virtue against poor Claire. All ends club-bily in a drunken brawl...
...candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...