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...boors and brutalitarians. British Novelist Gwyn Griffin is a onetime army officer in Africa who showed in By the North Gate (TIME, April 20, 1959), that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire in British East Africa. In 1947 he is a glorified cop who bears the White Man's Burden as if it were a huge chip on his sloping shoulders. Cecil comes from a second-rate public school...
...Victoria Spurgeon showed a pleasing but small voice, and the two pianos should have scaled their volume down to a suitable level. Tom Blodgett was commendable as the eventually resourceful suitor, Caroline Cross direct, Daniel Larner conducted, and Lionel Spiro devised a felicitously ridiculous statue...
George Brown as the Vicar is particularly good in his opening ballad while his singing and acting are generally excellent. Alison Keith's Mrs. Partlett is a perfect characterization of the elderly pew-opener while Victoria Spurgeon as her daughter Constance is only competent. Stevens Garlick provides a perfect performance as the doddering, deaf old Notary...
...loveliest portions of the concert were supplied by the two soloists, Victoria Spurgeon and Edith Gould. Both of them have beautiful voices which they used intelligently to produce some remarkably emotional singing...
Died. Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 63, scholarly Negro sociologist, longtime (1928-46) head of social sciences at Nashville's Fisk University, who was named a UNESCO delegate in 1946, became Fisk's first Negro president the same year; of a heart attack; in Louisville. Dr. Johnson attacked race hatred calmly and analytically, summed up the segregation issue: "... a struggle between those who believe in democracy and those...