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...familiar, and so may the military bearing. In four years of film acting, David Keith, 28, has had trouble getting out of boot-camp. He was a G.I. in Friendly Fire, a sailor in Back Roads and a spit-and-polish Navy flyer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman. In The Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned how to drill...
WITH ONE FOOT in Gilbert and Sullivan and the other in Agatha Christie, Say Goodbye is up to its knees, at least, in lovingly rehashed cliches and pleasingly resurrected stock characters. The English country gentleman, the dowdy wife, and the conniving mix-tress are all well cared-for of a dark and stormy eve by the ever-faithful butler when--of all things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears...
Sometimes, I found, the potential recipient's previously formed opinions determine his decision about whether to accept the leafleter's offering. One elderly gentleman passed me by, and then turned around. "Oh," he quipped. "I'll take one of them, I thought it was one of things for Spanish classes. Those damn things should be outlawed...
...answer was a resounding no, and that wise gentleman-the selfsame Noel Coward-assured him that it was not he who was out of touch; it was the decade. And he was right, as he so often is in this wicked, witty and refreshingly sane volume of diaries. Much of the work he so archly deplored has already been forgotten, while his own plays continue to please and delight, as they probably will for as long as audiences enjoy laughing. Present Laughter (1942), with George C. Scott, is one of this year's Broadway hits, and just two weeks...
...binary vision. He admires Margaret Leighton both personally and professionally; but when she divorces Laurence Harvey, he listens politely to her complaints, then writes in his diary how "it saddens me to see how these silly ladies muck up their lives. The moment they get their hooks into the gentleman of their choice they proceed assiduously to bash the whole thing to pulp with their tantrums and exigence ... It really isn't surprising that homosexuality is becoming as normal as blueberry...