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...been coming along nicely this year, and Jack Scheu. In the two mile run Cornell is entering Bruce Kerr who took fourth in the IC4A 3000 meter run. Harvard enters Playfair and Dartmouth sends in Lepreau. From this point on, namely in the weight events, the Ithacans are feckless and woefully weak. Harvard is very strong in the 35 pound weight and the shot put. The Crimson is doped as sure first in the weight throw in the person of Frank Cahners and the shot put will be dominated by Johnny Dean and Red Healey as it was last year...
...shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with stock characters, a stale plot and mechanical lines, Come Easy made its mild zoo of feckless people easily believable. Director Miele kept bouncing her characters into spontaneity, accented their brash selfishness, their reluctant and shamefaced fondness for one another. Best performances: David Morris as the sulky and likeable son; Helen Lowell making of the harried mother a singularly gracious and human characterization...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...
...even more notoriously small. Author Rothermell in his 14th novel (his first 13 he destroyed) pulverizes his hero to the vanishing point. The somewhat grisly story, which owes debts to Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, he tells with a workmanlike resolution oddly contrasted with his two chief characters' feckless attitude of laissez faire...
...feckless life's chronicle...