Word: lockharts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Instead, the Captain (played by Gene Lockhart) is weasled into taking his passengers on a jaunt to an island in the Caribbean, where life can always go on being Sunday. Unfortunately, nasty old Reality (in the shape of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter) intervenes, and there are oblique hints that you just can't escape from life...
Nancy Walker, the female comic lead, is probably the loudest and most un ingratiating actress on the stage today; Gene Lockhart, her co-star, is an established actor in his own right, but he has no singing voice, and this is, unfortunately, a prerequisite in a musical. There is, of course, a romantic sub-plot running through the play, but since neither of its principals can either sing or dance, it seems hardly worth mentioning...
...injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since Oct. 1): 131 Reds killed, 19 captured. But it is uphill work, against a crafty, concealed enemy. This week the influential, conservative Singapore Straits Times, reporting on "the blackest of black weeks," urged that 25,000 British Commonwealth troops be shifted...
Even in a story with scores of human actors, Ericson and Lockhart stand out as sharp, deeply drawn characters. Ericson, an easygoing veteran of the merchant service, hardens slowly into a killer as cold as a shark. He does not lose his humanity, but it shrinks up inside him like a dried pea. Lockhart is a richer and more appealing nature. He hardens in authority but he does not shrink. He broadens and deepens in his knowledge of men, and at the end, he not only can bear the weight of war, but can shoulder a home-base love affair...
Plenty of writers have moaned about the creative years stolen from them by war service. For Novelist Monsarrat, as for his character Lockhart, "they were not lost years . . . He had grown up fast in the meantime, he was a different person from the . . . not very good journalist who had joined up in 1939 . . . He had missed five years of writing and travel, but he had gained in every other way . . . 'I should be all right after the war,' he told himself...