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...presenting the clash between psychologist and priest, one of the author's favorite themes, The Living Room makes use of both dialogue and symbolic plot. Barbara Bel Geddes, as Rose Pemberton, plays a young Catholic caught between the demands of her faith and her desire to remain the mistress of a middle-aged psychologist. Attempting to influence her decision are, quite naturally, the psychologist (Michael Goodliffe) and the priest (Walter Fitzgerald...
Ultimately, both religion and psychology fail in their earthly mission, as Rose escapes her dilemna with suicide. In the last scene, however, a philosophical post mortem takes place, in which Greene contrasts the pessimism of the psychologist with the hope of the priest. Reinforcing this contrast is the subordinate theme of the heroine's two maiden aunts. Both Catholics, they have attempted to escape thoughts of death by closing all rooms in which their relatives have died. Presumably, Aunt Teresa's final decision to sleep in the living room where her niece has committed suicide represents Greene's idea...
...difficulty by placing most of his dramatic scenes in one overloaded act. The first part of the second act contains in this order: an hysterical scene between Rose and her aunts, an hysterical scene between Rose and the psychologist's wife, an hysterical scene between Rose and the priest, and finally her suicide...
...hrer's funeral pyre in beaten Berlin, Bormann disappeared. His wife died in the Italian Alps a year later. For all their anti-Christian indoctrination, seven of their children have become Roman Catholics. The eldest, Hitler's godson, is training to become a priest...
...Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...