Word: love-sick
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...eighteenth-century Scottish gigolo, and his twentieth-century descendant Donald, whose passions are somewhat more restrained. Although neither part demands exceptional acting, Donat manages to lighten his burr to achieve the transition from Murdoch to Donald. Jean Parker, However, looking like an English Claudette Colbert, is only a routine love-sick heroine. Although her attempted love affair with the ghost is a change from the ordinary, she has no opportunity to show any talent...
Developments later proved that the 406 sewage potions were combining to form a miraculous elixir. A love-sick Cambridge maiden unrequited in her passion drank a fifth of iodine and then flung herself into the Charles River to wind things...
...published on Thackeray,'and a first-rate editing job. Three-fifths of the letters have never before been published. They range from Thackeray, aged 6 ("My dear Mama I hope you are quite well: I have given my dear Grandmama a kiss"), to Novelist Thackeray, 40, famed and love-sick ("My dearest Mammy ... the griefs of my elderly heart can't be talked about. . . . What can any body do for me?"). Editor Ray has also included enlightening extracts from Thackeray's private diaries and account-books, scores of his sketches, brief biographies of his chief correspondents, explanatory...
Richard Whittemore is perhaps the best in a cast which is good, but not exceptionally so. As the blonde secretary, he (or should we say "she") displays a mastery of the moony facial gestures of a love-sick lass. His singing is also among the best. Joel Ferris, in the role of a phony Russian count, makes the best possible of a part which is none too easy to put across. His Cossack dance is one of the highlights of the show. The beauties of the bulging biceps, constituting the chorus, are uproariously funny. Dave Stiles deserves special comment...
...thoroughly polished and perfectly cast performance. Philip Merivale and Joan Dante perhaps stand out a little above the rest of the cast, but it is rather unfair to make any such general statement. Gleun Anders as the adamant artist does a beautiful job of repulsing love-sick Florence Williams...