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...comedy, To Be Continued, William Marchant has treated the moral structure of Western society in about as casual a manner as anybody in a pretty casual century. Without batting an eyelash he sets the scene in the Greenwich Village pied-a-terre of a New York jeweler, weaves the action from the point of view of that gentleman's mistress, and as I understand it, blandly assumes throughout that there is no problem of social morality in the relationship...
This assumption would be defensible or the comedy were played merely for the laughs inherent in the reversal of the accepted view of marriage. Marchant does make the most of his Boccaccian situation, even dragging in somebody else's mistress to add to the incongruity. Unfortunately, however, after he has more than exhausted the possibilities in this direction he begins to moralize abstractly on the role of the husband in the home, the wife in the home, the mistress in the home, and the "delicate balance" of human relationships...
...over for Chollet and among them have succeeded in taking up the slack. Lyndon Hull has been starting at offensive left-half and will probably open today's game. He is being pressed for the starting assignment, however, by Sophomore Bob Engel who scored three times against Lafayette. Reginald Marchant, a junior, has been operating as the Ithacans' safety...
...linebackers are co-captain Chuck Taylor and Bill Kostes, Bob Haley and Andy Hanley play the halfbacks and Marchant is the safetyman...
...should Beishelm-ed of yourself," retorted Di Grande Disciple. "Why, with all those Jenson ladies watching the opposition Marchant over...