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THE INFERNAL GROVE by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE 280 pages. Morrow. $7.95.
With most prophets who deal in unrelieved raillery, the tedium is the message. But Muggeridge is too canny an entertainer for that. In The Infernal Grove, the second volume of his autobiography, he writes with enough verve and instinct for artful exaggeration to keep a good novel spinning along. His...
Chapman also channels the talents of John Majors into a penetrating Cousin, who accentuates Undershaft's demonical doctrines as he confronts him. Once Majors conquers his inappropriate Trotsky-like appearance and stops pounding his irritating drum, there ensues a battle which erases any doubt that Undershaft might not be "an...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, The Damnation of Faust and The Infernal Cauldron by Georges Melies (1903), and Socrates by Roberto Rossellini, (1970), Dec. 13, at 7:30, $1
That is where Wilder turns up this time, in the guise of his title character, 29-year-old Theophilus North. Like Wilder, the young North (who remembers his stories in extreme old age) is an escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a...