Word: dauphinate
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...opium eaters thronging a ballroom that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively, while the man's equally aged wife alternately complains and boasts about what an incurable...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Claude Dauphin in Cardinal Mindszenty...
...Butler's star rises, that of Eden's, the party dauphin, falls. Should Churchill step aside soon, the betting is that Eden would succeed him-but if Churchill stays on for two years, Rab Butler might well be his heir. Churchill is muttering that he might retire after Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which this week was set for June 2, 1953. Churchill himself has had some downs as well as ups. Some Tories grumble that he has been too arbitrary and too heedless of getting the public behind him. Yet he is still capable of rising...
Anthony Eden - "my trusted deputy," as Churchill has pointedly called him- is now the designated dauphin of the party. There is a view widely held among Tories that Churchill, whose health is uncertain and who needs rest, might not stay more than a year or so in office if elected. Then, having given the impulsion of his prestige and authority to the re-establishment of the British international position, he might hand over the reins to Eden...
...dramatic creation, Joan herself scarcely comes off. Shaw sought to make her real by making her realistic, by having her talk patois and slang and call the Dauphin "Charlie." But by making her so much like other people, he did not lessen her mystery; he merely weakened her magnetism...