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Everybody Loves Opal (by John Patrick) is a try at sick comedy that merely manages to be unwell. A bizarre trio of crooks consisting of a satanic professor with one lung (Donald Harron), a roly-poly jester (Stubby Kaye), and a bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) who looks nude in clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered...
...mature criminal. But West Side Story goes wildly, insufferably wrong when it insists that society is entirely guilty, that the teen-age hoodlums are ultimately innocent. Worse yet, the picture becomes wildly, immorally sentimental when it attempts the apotheosis of alley rats, broadly suggesting that they are the Patrick Henrys of the urban proletariat...
No.1 rosary promoter is big, broguish Father Patrick Peyton, who conducts mass rallies around the world to encourage the use of the rosary in family worship ("The family that prays together stays together"). In San Francisco last week, Father Peyton preached the rosary to some 250,000 people in Golden Gate Park; last year in South America he distributed 1,500,000 rosaries to the poor. Says he: "The rosary has accomplished many great wonders in the world. When recited in the family each day, it is the most powerful weapon in our armory today against the evils that beset...
RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT (532 pp.)-Patrick White-Viking...
Australia's Patrick White, while still a lamb in the field of letters, was unfortunately carried away by a big bad Woolf named Virginia. He still listens with the Bloomsbury ear, speaks in the Bloomsbury accent-broadened by a slight Australian snarl. In Britain, where Woolf's Bloomsbury is still held dear as well as precious, critics say he listens acutely and speaks with distinction. They have greeted all five of his novels (e.g., Voss, The Tree of Man) with little civil cries of educated pleasure. U.S. reviewers have been somewhat less impressed, and this turbid allegory will...