Word: finches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be expected, the production belongs to the ladies. Each of the play's six actresses add enough of their own charm so any minor faults are easily excusable. Especially appealing in a minor part is Suzanne Chappell Finch as an aunt of the heiress. And Suzanne Flinton, Dare Taylor, and Elayne Coyne are respectively clever, coquettish, and cheery in their supporting roles. Danielle Holmgren as Aunt Penniman, perhaps acts a bit too much at one pitch. She is a pert, dove-like person but her fluttering should be decreased, as it is in the last few scenes, to achieve...
Whistler's Grandmother (by Robert Finch) is almost as bad as its title. A young saloonkeeper, whose singer fiancée craves a wholesome family background, hires a lovable old rip to pretend to be his grandmother. She soon turns the backroom-and the boys in it-into a God-Bless-Our-Home Victorian parlor and makes every one so happy that, when the truth comes out, they all vote to go on living...
...this, Playwright Finch brings no jot of extenuating talent. His play is as harmless, soporific and old-fashioned as a child's soothing syrup. Its big asset is that grandma is played by that favorite of You Can't Take It With You, Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey, Josephine Hull. But seldom has so winning an actress engaged in so losing a fight...
Married. Bertrand Russell, 80, British philosopher-author (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World), longtime champion of premarital sex and critic of modern marriage ("Most . . . would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); and Edith Finch, 52, onetime teacher at Bryn Mawr; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in London...
Engaged. Bertrand Russell, 80, Britain's famed philosophical trustbuster (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World) and thrice-married critic of modern manners & morals ("Most marriages would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); to Edith Finch, 52, onetime English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, now his secretary; in London...