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...glorify himself and Edward, Boult stops at nothing. He betrays and bullies his gentle wife (Deborah Kerr), who ends up as a maudlin drunkard. He deserts his mistress (Leueen MacGrath), and drives his old friend and partner (Mervyn Johns) to suicide. As the movie ends, both Edward and his wife are dead, but Boult, still obsessed with the pursuit of self-perpetuation, is ready to begin a search for Edward's illegitimate child...
...lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated badinage in Miss MacGrath's sitting room-he is beyond his depth. As his sensitive but spineless wife, Miss Kerr reels in much of the slack of Tracy's performance with ease and authority. Except for some tasteless exaggeration of dress and manner in her final drunken scenes, her performance has an authentic finish...
Doubles summaries: Ager and Bullard (H) def. Rodman and Diey (D) 6-8, 6-1, 6-2; Kerr and Meyers (D) def. Ames and Hughes (H) 6-1, 6-3; Gahagan and Irving (D) def. Bramhall and Reese...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, with Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Ian Hunter...
High scorer for the game was Bob Baldwin, who accounted for three goals. Ned Yost and Lou Schaffer each made two, and Zevi Jaffe, Dune McCallum, Jack Kerr, and Pete Brooke each scored once...