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...Captain's Paradise (London Films; Lopert) is a wonderfully funny little immorality play about how the Old Adam tries once again to have his apple and eat it too. The Adam in this instance is a middle-class Englishman who looks as safe as porridge-until the moviegoer looks again and sees that the part is being played by Alec Guinness, who, in recent films (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Promoter), has been hilariously demonstrating that the dullest-seeming people may be the most fascinating monsters...
...that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble," lamented Job. But trouble fairly brims over when a man is born, as was Aubrey Menen, of an Irishwoman and a Hindu, is registered as a native Briton and educated like a true-born Englishman. Beset by so many distorting mirrors, such a man is bound to see the baffling jigsaw puzzle of his identity with either tears or laughter. Novelist Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, The Duke of Gallodoro) chooses laughter...
...object of this lavish praise is a lean and elegant Englishman who divides his time between the sun-swept luxury of the Riviera and the box-hedged comfort of his country home in Kent. He has a pretty and helpful wife, and earns the income, as he puts it, of "a high-grade civil servant." He appears to be almost as much at home in society as in his studio, and is not averse to designing rugs, or painting occasional portraits of the great...
...Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes, a French woman who is not as bad as she seems undoes an American who is almost too good to be true. In Galsworthy's The Apple Tree, a middle-aged Englishman remembers a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern...
...long-faced, lanky figure of John Foster Dulles was familiar. So was that of worldlywise, world-weary little Georges Bidault. The new face at the diplomatic table in Washington this week would be that of a lean Englishman who is pinch-hitting for Anthony Eden. He is the Tory Party's hidden siege gun in foreign affairs...