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...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction, an understated screenplay, and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...
Even children-at whom this VistaVision lollipop is obviously aimed-won't be suckers enough to swallow all of the raspberry-flavored plot; and a dragged-in reel or two dealing with Debbie's hankering to act in a Broadway play instead of settling down to foster-motherhood is just one more of show business' painful salutes to show business. But there is still plenty of rough-and-tumble fun and some good character bits played by Eileen Heckart and Alice Ghostley. Anyhow, it's spring...
Girlhood Granny. Yet, simple as she tried to portray herself, she was a complicated woman with an agonizingly complex background. Her mother, Mrs. Anna Hall Roosevelt, was a beautiful lady with little capacity for motherhood. Eleanor remembered standing in the parlor doorway at home as a child, "often with my finger in my mouth." and hearing her mother tell visitors: "She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned that we always call her Granny." Recalled Eleanor, "I wanted to sink through the floor in shame...
Bernarda, newly-widowed, is a woman who though she has borne and raised five children, remains a virgin: neither love nor motherhood has touched her heart. As a petty Spanish aristocrat, she is obsessed with the duty to maintain the honor of her House by holding her daughters to eight years of strict mourning for their father. But as often happens in Lorca, the Fates, working through human passions, have decreed tragedy. The House which Bernarda must keep unstained (alba) is marked for ruin...
...Principal William G. Saltonstall, 56, is not only a first-rate history teacher but also a noted athlete who won three varsity letters at Harvard. He still coaches Exeter teams most afternoons, looks from 50 yards like a 1962 All-America with prematurely white hair. Because he believes in "motherhood and the home," Saltonstall is reducing the number of younger boys at Exeter, took in only 90 juniors this year, against Andover's 140. The purpose: more maturity at Exeter and "more new blood." Though it is smaller than Andover, Exeter thus has the same number of seniors, last...