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...they always have and always will; 2) that no love affair, however sordid, can escape the terrible, endless implications of love. For some readers, he may have succeeded in demonstrating both; but for many his saint will seem as faraway and unreal as T. S. Eliot's Celia in The Cocktail Party...
...disruption of a middle-class housewife's prosaic routine when she meets an equally prosaic doctor while on her weekly shopping trip. Here the flashbacks are less adroitly handled than in "The Seventh Veil," and the performance of Trevor Howard, as the doctor, is too enthusiastic for the setting. Celia Johnson, however, gives an excellent performance as the wife. Though she is on the screen for almost the entire action, she manages to maintain an atmosphere of suspense and indecision without letting down and without becoming maudlin...
Although Jansen's actions have not yet touched college or university teachers, several college students have been indirectly affected. Last month, four student's organizations at New York's Queens College invited Mrs. Celia Zitron, one of eight public school teachers suspended by Jansen and the Board of Education, to speak on the campus...
...thoughtful, intelligent wife, Celia Johnson displays just enough martyr complex to make her role appealing but not maudlin. Though her rational plans go awry and she cannot maintain a marriage based on mutual need rather than love she is a refreshing and stable antidote to the decaying lovers...
Though Eliot has succeeded in creating out of verse some believable people, they are not people about whom one can become very concerned. The spiritual plight of Celia, the "saint," is not introduced until the last of the second set, the first and third acts being occupied with the breaking-up and patching-up of the marriage of the Chamberlaynes, who give the cocktail party. Interest in Celia blooms too late and too suddenly to allow much sympathy or investigation by the reader. The strongest character in Julia Shuttlethwaite, who is the epitome of all cocktail party gossips and ideal...