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...than I have tried to summarize the plot of "The Country Wife" and failed. Suffice it to say that there are three parts to the story: the first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain...
...role of the "Critic" and friend of the acting couple, Jerry Kilty does not give his usual assured performance and is often unconvincing as the worldly and aged roue. After a few more performances, however, he should have the part better in hand...
...early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than sings -and talks too much and too long...
Class of 23. The tradition of the late, famed schooner Bluenose* is perpetuated in a class of pleasure craft designed by William J. Roue and now being built in four Nova Scotia yards. The baby Bluenoses, sloop-rigged, are only 23 ft. overall and retail for about $1,250 in Canada, or $1,500 in the U.S. Bluenose owners have already started an international association to freeze the design of the class, regulate racing and keep alive the name of the original Bluenose...
...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...