Word: cyril
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Riverside, 4 LPs) appeals both to ear and eye by accompanying its long-playing records with a facsimile volume of the first edition of Lewis Carroll's book. The reading, by Cyril Ritchard, is at times too arch and patronizing; Alec Wilder's original musical score is pleasant...
...cote. In London, a mother told Probation Officer Cyril Burton that her 15-year-old son, who tells his parents when to go to bed, locks up the house at night, orders his meals served in a separate room, opens his father's mail and tells his mother not to speak to him unless spoken to, played hooky from school only because...
...CYRIL GARDINER Colombo, Ceylon...
...given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book is a delightfully unprofessorial diagnosis of that widespread 20th century malady−galloping orgmanship...
Scriptwriter Frank Nugent did the original story an injustice by introducing extraneous characters and de-emphasizing the police inspector, but Majesty still comes across very well. Cyril Cusack gives the best performance in the film as the inspector, and Noel Purcell is almost as good. The rest of the characters are Mr. Nugent's creatures, and are more than a little hammy. But then, Ireland may be a little hammy...