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...EDITH WYATT Decatur...
Czech Cavells. In London, former Czecho-Slovak President Dr. Eduard Benes predicted that the Prague executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
Soon it appears that what was intended as an absolutely honest autobiography has turned into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies...
...Women" deals with the fair sex in the cynical thirties, so "The Old Maid" takes its problem back into Civil War Days and the mauve decade. It is characteristic of the two periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...
...power was far from broken by the loss of Royal Oak. Together the Allies have 22 capital ships; Britain has nine more abuilding, and France has four. Germany has two, as well as three pocket battleships. But when British movie-goers last spring watched a Herbert Wilcox (Nurse Edith Cavell) film called Torpedoed-in which by models and studio shots Royal Oak is sunk by a U-boat (see cuts)-they little realized the melodrama's terrible impending reality...