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...ROGUISH WORLD OF DOCTOR BRINKLEY (280 pp.)-Gerald Carson-Rinehart...
Click of Corks. The close-cropped, woolly head and the sleek white Fifth Avenue gown come from different worlds, but the combination has a charm and grace of its own. In a ballad, she maintains the clean, classic phrasing of a church singer, she can be roguish in a West Indian ditty about a naughty flea, and she can make a chilling lament of A Warrior's Retreat Song-"Jikele maweni ndiyahamba/Jikele maweni indiyahamba," which she says suggests, "We've had it, we can't make it." Memory brings back the "Back of the Moon," a black...
Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan's formidable Mrs. Astor and her chosen 400. At one time, the prince was much smitten by a Cleveland-born Miss Chamberlain. She reportedly cooled his ardors with...
...roguish' school does have adherents on the Harvard faculty. One of them is professor of Government Charles Cherington who said this week, "Governor Curley was very polite to us, and we tried to be polite to him...I don't think he would get a very good recommendation from the Divinity School. But if you regard him as a period piece, he was unique and magnificent. I don't want to pass judgment on him. That's in the hands of our Father...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...