Word: mauriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Daphne du Maurier's September Tide...
...Feast as its April banquet. Why it took so long is hard to say, since there is nothing in the book that has not been done already-either much better by Thornton Wilder and Arnold Bennett or just as badly by Marguerite Steen, Taylor Caldwell and Daphne du Maurier...
...PARASITES (305 pp.)-Daphne du Maurier-Doubled...
Daphne du Maurier's new novel (her first about contemporary life since 138's bestselling Rebecca) is so plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced...
Marguerite Steen or a Taylor Caldwell. Yet Author du Maurier, soap her bohemian loofah as she may, fails to froth up a single sud of glamour or blow one bubble of poignant sadness. Even the title she has chosen suggests that Author du Maurier may have felt like apologizing a bit for having run so much bath water to so little purpose...