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...least, when Elizabeth's odyssey sounds like a radio serial that has lost its snap and crackle. But in the telling, it frequently pops with O'Hara's unequaled expertise as a domestic historian. Tuning in on a bridge game or a couple chatting over the supper dishes, watching a college president pushing responsibility for a nasty school scandal off onto the shoulders of a young dean, he catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills...
...Right, Jack gave Sellers his alltime juiciest part. It is a collage of comic bits pasted together with satire: Sellers walking into an open grave in a rainstorm, Sellers munching dog biscuits along with his sherry, a train compartment full of clerics looking startled when "the last supper" is announced in the dining car ahead...
Kirkland: Cocktails in common room, in the afternoon. Buffet supper. Two dances, with big-name fast and slow bands...
...doomed to hellfire. When retreating German soldiers put up at the villa, the girls are upset that Uncle does not show more hospitality to their visitors. The soldiers cater to the whims of the little girls. There is a touching scene when the German general, invited to a supper in the woods, obediently sips soup in the company of assorted dolls and Penny's yellow bear...
Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...