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Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...
...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...