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...sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom I admire most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound creation, warm as toast towards her Charley but cold and calculating...
...Elizabeth Bowen's [biography], Bowen's Court, she says...
...novels of Britain's Ivy Compton-Burnett have received so much highbrow adulation that there is a growing suspicion that they must be unreadable. The suspicion has some foundation: when Elizabeth Bowen says that "Miss Compton-Burnett is always fundamentally truthful at the expense of realism," she is simply saying that many readers will never have the vaguest notion of what Compton-Burnett is being so truthful about...
...only man who spoiled his part was Paul Sparer as Bert Jefferson, the young editor and romantic lead. He never was able to act with the conviction of the others on stage. Peter Dibble's Dr. Bradley, John Mannick's Mr. Stanley, and David Bowen's Beverly Carlton were all capable, though not inspired performances. Bob Cipes as Banjo made the most of the action and the least, of his lines--but they're very funny lines, and it didn't matter much...
...Class. The terrible human lesson that all three-Harrison, Kelway and Stella Rodney-have to learn is in the peculiar contemporary meanings of treason. Who is to be trusted, and why, and how far? It is appropriate that each of Miss Bowen's characters is engaged in secret work, for each is mysterious to the other. But before the end it is clear that each represents an important type of modern personality...