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...Gertie" is not, as the title might suggest, the latest in the interminable line of sugar-coated whimseys dealing with precocious teen-agers. It is, rather, a sophisticated comedy of modern manners, more reminiscent of Noel Coward than of Corliss Archer. Enid Bagnold's dry English wit rescues her new comedy-drama from the pitfalls of its situation and deftly transforms an apparently standard British household into a group of extraordinarily unstandard living people...
...defeated but wisened Archer confronts his old friend. "There was nothing personal" in it, says the old friend. To which the stung liberal replies: "I'm a funny man. I believe that whatever two human beings do to each other ... is personal...
...honest liberal stumbles on, carrying his heavy cross, in Irwin Shaw's new novel. This time the poor fellow is Clement Archer, radio director. He is really honest, really liberal: when a scandal-happy sheet accuses members of his troupe of being party-liners, he sets out to find the "facts...
...admits the show's leading lady, she's a party member. No, says the leading man (and Clem Archer's best friend), he's nothing of the kind. After some more questions, Clem decides that the accusations have been, at best, wild and indiscriminate. He joins a public campaign for "freedom of the air." Poor Clem; his case, and his career too, blows up when the leading lady puts the finger on the leading man as the secret party boss for radio who has been, playing Clem for a prize...
...officers were elected during the convention's business meeting. Neil H. McElroy '25 of Cincinnatti, president of Proctor and Gamble, was elected president. Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '31 of St. Louis has re-elected secretary, and H. S. Paydon Rowe '22 was renamed treasurer...