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...less ambitious feat of imagination, Playwright Anderson has given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft...
Vivian Taylor, who is fresh from Vassar or somewhere and uses her knowledge as something to throw bitterness at, is given a convincing portrayal as a young neurotic by Evelyn Dorn, once you've tumbled to the fact she's meant to be neurotic, and not just sophisticated. Ann Holt as the wealthy daughter, who might have been fresh from Vassar but has really just been disgorged by a finishing school, is well handled by Louise Kirtland, a beauty with a figure. The male juveniles are not so good...
...Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ernest Nelson; Professor Wilhelm Pauck of the University of Chicago; Reverend Mr. R. H. Lord '06, assistant professor of Government; C. J. Friedrick; Miss Violet Barbour, of Vassar; Professor L. B. Packard '09, of Amherst; Professor Penfield Roberts '16; Professor Walter Dorn; Professor Leo Gershoy; C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History; Professor Guy Stanton Ford; Professor Fredrick Artz; Professor W. L. Langer '15; Professor Robert Binkley; Professor Carleton Hayes, of Columbia University; Professor S. B. Fay '06; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale; and Professor William Lingelbach. An additional volume...
Delice and her father journey to the villa at Como to think things out. Prince Rezzonica, having a few affairs to keep going in various villas thereabouts, leaves his own place for weeks on end. Delice has discovered that he has become a drug addict and Dorn attempts to clear things up by talking to Rezzonica in no uncertain terms. The prince commits suicide. Dorn and Delice pack...
Back in New York, contentment finally comes to Delice. She meets interesting people and Time the Great Healer gets in a lot of good work. Dorn, who by this time has attained great clarity and volubility of thought and conversation, begins to feel a need for active work of some kind. The post of U. S. Minister to Italy is open. He accepts it as soon as he sees that Delice will surely marry Graeme Borden...