Word: portias
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...career as usual at 12:45 p.m. E.W.T., earlier that day (at 9:45 a.m. E.W.T.) they may follow her in a story promoting OWI's "Message" on the United Nations. Big Sister will double in a different story about "Victory Homes," Young Dr. Malone in "Home Nursing," Portia Faces Life in "Salvage," Stella Dallas in "The Merchant Marine...
...play's humor is weak, its potential charm is great, and the Guild's leading players are perfectly at home in the blandishing groove. Helen Hayes makes her Broadway Shakespearean debut (two years ago she played Portia in Chicago) in the role of Viola, who, in boy's clothes, pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving...
...enraged when her new house, like many another product of Britain's depression building boom, began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues" have demanded lower rents, better plumbing, repairs. If the owner...
...other innocent is Eddie, one of the wife's bright young men. Several years older than Portia, malicious, cynical, charming, he is that far more complex character, the corrupt innocent, who "had gone wrong through dealing with other people in terms that he found later were not their own." To him, Portia's innocence is a last oasis in the world's wasteland. But he plays her false with another girl, compromises her with everybody, ironically completes his betrayal when he refuses her love, saying she has the same ulterior motives as everybody else...
...Portia's betrayal is climaxed when she discovers that her diary has been discovered and talked about. She runs away, first to Eddie, who turns her down cold, then to a middle-aged innocent, who betrays her hysterical marriage proposal by telephoning her guardians to come...