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...business recipe for success: when the joke is bad, make the worst of it. The joke, written in this case by George Bernard Shaw, was a 1936 profiteer-jerker that parodied the plight of those who have money and think it will buy anything. In this revival, Director Anthony Asquith makes a parody of the parody, and where the play becomes too talky, he has the good sense to decree that the Shaw must not go on. He also makes the most of Sophia Loren, who consistently puts her breast a foot forward, and of Britain's Peter Sellers...
...antiquarians wryly recalled the dark days of 1907, when Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, defeated Lord Rosebery, former Prime Minister, by going to such extremes as dragging the Ambassador to Belgium all the way across the Channel to vote. Others recalled that former Prime Minister Lord Oxford and Asquith, who lost to a relatively unknown opponent, had taken his defeat hard in 1925. In order to find a precedent for a Prime Minister's seeking the job while in office, historians had to go all the way back to George III's hapless Lord North, whose other...
...Answers: 1) the Liberal Party, with 14 wins. 2) the Labor Party, with four. 3) Herbert H. Asquith...
...prevent Casement from attaining martyrdom." His advice was followed. The diaries were shown to King George V, who was shocked at their degeneracy; so was the Archbishop of Canterbury. More to the point, they were shown to U.S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page with the casual remark by Prime Minister Asquith that he "need not be particular" about whom he might in turn show them to. Gradually the pro-Casement agitation in the U.S. began to die away, but the ghost that has haunted the case ever since was the question: Were the black diaries genuine, or were they forged...
Nonetheless, this modest, seldom brilliant, sometimes even repulsively cute film version of the play, made in England by Anthony (The Browning Version) Asquith, is a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater. With the bland commercial irreverence that Shaw admired in himself but loathed in his producers, Director Asquith has cast Shaw's pearls of wit among some of the biggest camera hogs in the business. Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones...