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...Tell Alfred, Mitford...
...coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...
...Author Mitford puts rather too little wit and spirit into what is, at best, an awkward theme for comedy, the civil war between generations. Her sharpest jabs are scarcely meant to be funny and are aimed at that badly frayed bogeyman, the Americanization of the Old World. The book ends with a teen-age riot when Yanky Fonzy, a pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred...
...search for new ideas-the birth of a sketch is usually accomplished with a simple remark, such as "You be a dentist. I'll be a patient"-they read miscellaneously. Nichols enjoys his subscription to Dog World, even though he has given up his Saint Bernard, reads Nancy Mitford and Mary McCarthy, never looks at Variety. Elaine is intermittently writing a play for herself and Nichols (with about six other parts) that is tentatively scheduled for Broadway next season...
...witty, partisan study of Charles II, who, often dismissed as a libertine and a fool, is here assessed as "the sanest and most civilized of monarchs." Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. An often touching, always entertaining account of the famed Mitford sisters, who loved too unwisely and too well, both in personal and political affairs...