Word: fletcherize
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...Problem of the Emergent Peoples" comes up for discussion at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Dunster Forum when J. Fletcher-Cooke, British colonial administrator, speaks on the issue...
...talk, Fletcher-Cooke will discuss developments in the Far East and Africa as well as possible results of the admission of newly liberated peoples into the United Nations...
...Fletcher-Cooke has been in British government service since 1934 and is currently counsellor of Colonial Affairs for the British UN delegation...
Though I have never seen the Lamats in this play, I'm afraid I was occasionally haunted on opening night by their specters. Miss Farrand and Mr. Fletcher are polished and talented actors and need no apologies made for their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...
...indicated above, I can find no fault with the acting of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Farrand--except to stupidly point out that they are not the Lunts, a sad shortcoming they must share with all other actors. Of the two I would say that Mr. Fletcher gives the better show, and that his guardsman is preferable to his husband...