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Died. Edwin King Daly, 63, president since 1936 of Horn & Hardart Co.'s Automat restaurants, active Catholic layman who was made a Knight of Malta and Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XII; of a heart attack; in Bryn Mawr...
...sense is "Memory of A Morning After" a perfect story, in the J. Donald Adams sense. The opening scene in an Automat seems wholely unnecessary, if not downright impossible because Tillich introduces you to strangers whom, it later develops, Louis knows very well--and so it could hardly be the morning-after reminiscence. And a few annoying lapses into nicely written stream-of-consciousness, or whatever they're calling it these days, gives Louis credit for an imagination he doesn't have. And in relating a macabre story of a friend, Vera, the girl, says "he grinned and wandered...
...Franck's interpretation of the town crier and Paul Fithian's performance as the gullible schoolmaster. M. Mousquet is only sketchily defined by Jack McGrail, and the succession of rural bumpkins who fall for Knock's prescriptions emerge from the clinic like so many neatly packaged sandwiches from an automat...
Twink and Mama Girl head for the bright lights of Manhattan, settle in servants' quarters at the Pierre Hotel, eat at the Automat, and feed the pigeons in Central Park. When Mama Girl's multimillionaire friend Gladys DuBarry, who suffers from "polio of the soulio," offers to house mother and daughter in a penthouse suite, Mama Girl proudly throws the DuBarry woman out on her earrings. But Mama Girl has to admit that all is not well: "I'm the most beautiful girl at every party; I meet all the producers and directors and writers and actors...
...Rembrandt is gone, and the house is stuffed with electronic brains and their human servitors, all available to customers on something akin to a help-yourself automat basis...