Word: hatters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This book, well made, clearly printed, and fitting the hand easily, is written to join the several other Cronin novels (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, Keys of the Kingdom) high up on the bestseller lists. In an accompanying blurb, Cronin declares that of all his novels "this book, more than any other, was written from the heart...
...while Cortright made a most dauntless limey sailor. At times the latter was slightly unconvincing, but his singing and a fine first act dance made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg were superb...
...perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book, e.g., the chapter on hats is by Lilly, the pages on how to force a husband to wear a pink tuxedo...
Clare Scott as the Red Queen, Lee Jeffries as the White Queen, and Timothy Cogan as the Mad Hatter give their parts true Carrollian personalities, although Cogan is too often difficult to understand. All the other characters add ably to the total merriment, and when Alice asks at the end, "Wasn't it a wonderful dream?" even the jaded will be liable to agree...
...accept his ECA associations uncritically. He has denounced Europe's capitalists as "cartel-ridden," attacked Point Four as "a Mad Hatter's race" ("Our billions will be wasted for lack of an existing entrepreneurial class in the backward countries"). He looks askance at Europe's Schuman Plan for pooling steel resources, considers it an incentive to "socialism...