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...Wickes, members of his family and half a dozen dependable recruits moved up and down the streets passing out candles. Before he was through, Wickes had given away 10,000, and voters who had never heard of him before were greeting him with "Hi, Candle." Last week, when Hurricane Edna blacked out most of his district again, Wickes handed out 5,000 more candles, raised the brightness of his chances for victory to some 15,000 candlepower...
...dollars' worth of New England property, the entire Atlantic seaboard was anxiously alerted for the next big seasonal storm to come rolling north. There was not long to wait. Before New England had half mopped up the mess left by Carol, Hurricane Dolly roared harmlessly by. Then came Edna...
Like her older sister Carol, Hurricane Edna proved to be a dangerous ondine, full of feminine caprices and packing a 125-mile-per-hour wallop. When first sighted last week, she was off the Bahamas, churning like a top and headed northwest. For five days she minced slowly northward in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast, while along the shore hurricane flags went up, storm shutters slammed down, and everybody waited breathlessly. HURRICANE TO HIT HEAD-ON UNLESS
...wife Julie Harris, who cannot see why he must do everything the hard way when the easy way is so much more fun. Called up for military service, Wallach nobly refuses to seek deferment, even though it means he must reluctantly deposit his wife with his termagant mother (Edna Best), one of the great ladies of the Paris theater...
Through and around these scenes sweeps Edna Best, wearing a stomacher, a red wig and a putty nose. Though a skilled actress, she is miscast and overplays the vulgarity of her role as she declaims fake-heroic verses, shouts uncomfortably ribald asides, and trails behind her a retinue of hairdressers, manicurists and poets. William Windom and Harry Bannister are effective as youthful and aged incarnations of women-chasers. Superbly costumed by Motley, Colombe is played against Boris Aronson's fine settings-a gauzy, grey-and-golden evocation of the Paris of yesteryear. The language of the Kronenberger adaptation...