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...LITTLE PRINCESSES (314 pp.) -Marion Crawford- Harcourt, Brace...
...first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain access (for purposes easily imagined) to the wives and daughters of unsuspecting friends and associates. How these plots are connected and what strategems are used...
...Ritchard's wife, Madge Elliott, cannot do the same for the part of Alithea, betrothed of Sparkish and beloved of Harcourt. Alithea is an aberration on Wyncherley's part: she is a moral figure in a profoundly immoral play, and is completely out of place. No actress could have made Alithea seem natural in the rollicking atmosphere of "The Country Wife...
William Tregoe is good in the routine part of Harcourt, and Robert Fletcher likewise good as Horner, who has little to recommend himself as a character beyond the diabolic ingenuity of his scheme...
...WOMAN OF MEANS (160 pp.)-Peter Taylor-Harcourt, Brace...