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...Trapezoidal means like a trapezoid, or two sides parallel," William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said. Actually it's trapeziform, or trapezate, like a trapezium, or no sides parallel...
With the story by Sir Osbert Sitwell and James Mason in a lead part, this movie should have been a lot better than it is. The picture, an English export, would have done more for the reputation of British films had it remained within the sterling bloc...
...subject is ghosts; the treatment is neither scary nor funny--merely heavy-handed. James Mason, as a retired businessman, and his wife, Barbara Mullen, bring their 40 years experience in the drapery business to battle with a frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...
There are a few scenes that come close to success--the servants gossipping in the kitchen, town characters at the pub. Among the characters, James Mason is kindly and venerable, Barbara Mullen patient and faithful, and Margaret Lockwood sufficiently distracted for her part. The whole cast acts far above the lines...
...Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined...