Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high bid of $2,184, a U.S. dealer pocketed a sheaf of 20 tumultuous love letters to Alice Lockett, a red-haired nurse, written in London three-quarters of a century ago by an impoverished Irish suitor named George Bernard Shaw. Some excerpts: "Granted that I am a buffoon-one whose profession is to bribe people to listen to me by literary antics such as silly tales of lovemaking and so forth. But has anyone been more serious with you than I? If you have made me feel, have I not made you think?" "Write to me, and I will...
Barry Morse as the iconoclastic John Tanner plays with deft versatility which succeeds in both the comic scenes and the more serious Don Juan in Hell interlude. Opposite Morse is Nancy Wickwire who sparkles as Tanner's impish, if unwanted, suitor. As the sentimental slush Octavius Robinson, Michael Higgins is handsome, winsome, and properly Victorian...
...Werner. Her father was a wealthy industrialist from Milwaukee, his father a comfortably fixed chemical engineer from Wyncote, Pa. When it came to talk of marriage, there was trouble-but not the kind a faithful moviegoer would expect. Industrialist Arnold J. Werner liked his daughter's college-boy suitor; the boy's family was the one to object. The reason, they said, was that Lutheran Werner was leading Leland away from his Roman Catholic faith...
There is his agnostic doctor who offers Kansdorf morphine and a mercy killing. The doctor's wife had married him on the rebound when the man she really loved jilted her. This erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot. Father Perezcaballero is the bedeviled Graham Greene priest of the mislaid vocation. A brilliant preacher-intellectual, he has every gift but faith, all knowledge but that of the dimensions of his own pride. Brought to an appalled recognition of his vanity and emptiness, Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf...
...official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas?-why, ten billionaires would be after it"). All goes well as long as Pippin is content to remain wax in the hands of his advisers. Unfortunately, ermine makes the king, and he is soon drawn to exercise his divine rights...