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Five Finger Exercise. There is more than a measure of truth in Playwright Peter Shaffer's picture of English country life, and John Gielgud's fine direction helps to keep the uneven play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) from becoming intolerably cat-and-mousey, turns it into an engrossing production...
...Whedon, as the mousey Clyde, did not borrow his characterization from the many stock portrayals of the harried little man. By adding his own gestures and inflections, Whedon produces a likeable blundering, never grating in his blundering. Whedon's clear diction also benefits his singing moments and his numbers, particularly "Caviar and Roses," pretty nearly overcome the given handicaps...
...Schumacher has great admiration for what she calls "the democracy in American education." In this country, she finds the relationship between teacher and student far more healthy and constructive than in Europe. "American teachers have much more respect for the student. Students don't learn to be meek and mousey: they're invited to speak up. In Germany, the teacher is the master, the pupil is a little 'pimpf'. The master-servant relationship in the German school and family was the Hitler regime on a small scale, a preparation...
...express understandable concern over the aggressiveness of the modern young woman. Perhaps you forget that a woman reacts to a "mousey" man by increased domination as an unconscious desire to punish him for his lack of masculinity . -Maybe more assertiveness on the part of the dominated man will give him more "say" and make his wife more docile and much happier than she was before...
Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...