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From your editorial April 13th on the Debate Council, you stand convicted with the University of the same sin. You justify your plea for Debate Council support by stating that a winning debate team is a "worthwhile investment," whereas a losing team detracts from Harvard prestige. You also imply tacit acceptance of the theory that competing organizations in general should be able to pay their own way by gate receipts...
Syncopation. In Pomeroy, Ohio, 82-year-old John F. Mitchell divorced 75-year-old wife Bertha because she listened to jazz radio programs, despite her solemn wedding-day promise two years ago that she would allow no sin about their house...
Written with some pungent dialogue and played as if it really mattered, the movie manages to keep its hokum fairly lively. Joan's fans will be glad to find that, for all her suffering, the wages of sin never loom quite as large as the dividends. They may also glean some thrill from the script's implied message: a woman's decision to walk out on a grubby home and poor provider is virtually an inalienable right...
Martinis & Wisdom. In the end, Shireen collects the wages of sin. She loses her husband and her peace of mind, and is left with nothing but a shrinking money bag, a swank flat, and what passes for wisdom across dollar Martinis: "Man cannot live by caviar alone...
Rattigan's fidelity to Rattigan is also responsible for some troublesome defects. He commits the serious cinematic sin of letting his climax - the boy's final legal victory - take place offscreen, as it did offstage. In the play, the impossibly haughty barrister who wins the case was a rich treat of tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs...