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...Dean Leighton called for stricter enforcement of the University parking regulations yesterday, in an answer to Student Council criticism of present University policy...
...there is a sharp contrast between two lives badly lived and two not lived at all, and a glorious opportunity, on the stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
...play in appeal. The author of The Winslow Boy and 0 Mistress Mine has written two short plays with a shared background -a small, drab, English seaside hotel-and a recurrent roster of guests. In passing from one play to the other, only the two leading players, Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman-and they vary garishly-have new roles...
...proletarian who might have been a Labor cabinet minister, is reduced to penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton is an angular, sniffiy spinster who loves the fraud whom her dragon of a mother exposes and tries to expel...
...only really irritating acting performance is that of Ann Hillary, who persists to shout wordlessly in a rasping voice throughout both plays. If Miss Hillary proves distracting, nothing else detracts from the general success of the play. The sets, while not exciting, are satisfactory. The costumes, especially on Miss Leighton, are more than adequate. But the most striking contributions are those of Eric Portman and Terence Rattigan...