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Coward plays a sedately married London psychiatrist who goes off his rocker over a flighty, glamorous divorcee (Margaret Leighton). His devoted wife, played by Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson, introduces them, goes conveniently off to her mother's place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...
...these ludicrously underplayed dramatics. Miss Leighton's role is the only one with any conviction, and she ably makes the most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...
...Class of 1953 will have 200 percent more of an opportunity than previous classes to make a careful selection of where it will live for the next three years, according to an announcement by Dean Leighton last night...
Last year only seven inter-House privileges were extended over a period of two weeks. Only one pass could be obtained for each House. This year, according to Leighton, the passes will probably be limited to two per House "as far as capacity permits," to prevent over-crowding of any one dining hall on a single night...
...Leighton pointed out, however out, however, that the present sophomores compared unfavorably with '50 and '51 in the percentage required to leave college because of academic difficulties...