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...steal the show from his older and more experienced fellow actors. His transformation from a mischievous, carefree imp to a lonely but childishly appealing outcast is convincingly portrayed, and his portrait of the sensitively curious, misguided child is remarkably well sustained. The other performances, especially those of Claire Maurier and Albert Remy as the blundering parents, are appropriately less delicate and in equally perfect taste...
Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTË(336 pp.)-Daphne Du Maurier -Doubleday...
Ibbetson, based on the mistily romantic 19th century novel by George du Maurier, has to do with a young architect who meets the girl he once loved as a child in Paris, learns that she is married but continues to carry on a sort of astral affair with her in his dreams. The opera, like the book, juxtaposes scenes of fact and fantasy in a pre-Freudian demonstration of the relation between the inner and outer life. At Ibbetson's premiere, the hero's curiously frustrated longings were enough to reduce the audience to tears, but at last...
...Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (3) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 7. Exodus, Uris (4) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 10. The Breaking Point, Du Maurier NONF1CTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 4. The Longest Day, Ryan (6) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (4) 6. The Status Seekers, Packard (5) 7. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (7) 8. The Stolen Years, Touhy...