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...with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic show where a young woman was really sawed in half. "I said: 'Well, what's the explanation?' Flora Massingham said: 'there isn't any explanation. He just saws them...
...session and barely (by a vote of 113 to 104) passed a resolution supporting the inclusion of Germany in Western defenses (TIME, March 8), the respected weekly London Observer (circ. 475,609) reported the meeting fully. The Observer's veteran parliamentary reporter and novelist (Fear No Evil), Hugh Massingham, even included such details as Nye Bevan's letting "off a few spirited quips about the stupidity and dishonesty of some of his colleagues," and Clement Attlee's announcing "through pipe puffs that 'I'm told this [vote] will split the party...
...Massingham's story and others that followed were too much for Deputy Labor Party Leader Herbert Morrison. Bitterly, he scolded the Observer and party members who "retail gossip about confidential proceedings." The Observer quickly replied that "it is at party meetings that policy questions are thrashed out. Should the public be denied all information about these debates, which are clearly of public interest? There is a tendency nowadays to limit the activities of reporters ... to receiving official handouts." The Observer was immediately joined by the Times. "It is no function of newspapers," thundered the Times, "to keep politicians...
...Lake (by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald; produced by Jed Harris). In this sincere, intelligent but somewhat rambling play, there are two powerful scenes. One occurs when Stella Surrege (Katharine Hepburn), who has broken off a sticky love affair with a horsey neighbor (Geoffrey Wardwell) to marry a kindly, understanding War veteran with ?15,000 a year, discovers that she loves her new husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away...
...Four weeks after The Lake started its successful London run last March, Co-author Massingham, recovering from influenza and a nervous breakdown, was found dead in a gas-filled room...