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...damage starts when Neddy tender considerate husband and rising young English architect, signs up for a 13-month job in Australia and packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They...
...basic dilemma remains unresolved, and in this first novel. Briton Isabel Quigly maintains it for so long that the plot caves in on her characters. With Neddy's return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Angel; $9.98). Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud, Pamela Brown and Celia Johnson give Wilde's farce a reading that may never be matched...
...puffs rude reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large, he is J. K., England's greatest painter. To the Kerr household, he is Fatuncle, a lifelong, irresponsible nuisance who only comes around to cadge money and food. When his 16-year-old niece Celia goes to pose for him, she meets a double man who divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist...
...Light Touch. In London, winning ?1,555 ($4,354) for injuries suffered in a bus collision, Mrs. Celia Lampert asked an additional settlement because her husband Samuel had left her after the accident, but this was ruled out by the judge: "The loss of such a man is not a very serious matter except from the point of view of pride...