Word: morum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modo adulescentes sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus...
Edwina Black (by William Dinner & William Morum; produced by Donald Flamm) dies, just before the play opens, of arsenic poisoning. Surviving are an unfaithful husband (Robert Harris), a companion-secretary (Signe Hasso) he has been unfaithful with, and a devoted servant. A Scotland Yard man arrives, scrutinizes, interrogates, looks for clues, makes much of weedkiller, mutters about hand lotion, deliberates, deduces, turns up trumps, unravels...
...trip from London to Boston was long, but it should take even longer for "Edwina" to reach New York from its present stand. Billed as a "London smash," this new play by William Dinner and ican tastes differ. Over here, it is a long, tedious William Morum proves again that British and Amerwhodunit, colored by an unsatisfying love affair...
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