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...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...
From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...expect to be submerged quietly and comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
...Camel's Back. Playwright Maugham herein concerned himself with an irresponsible investigation of the regions of the utterly inane. He involved himself in such a feathery swirl of epigram and complication that along in Act II he found that he simply could not make his wits' ends meet. He gave up trying...
...hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads out in the distance and windy clouds swirl high. He felt indeed very witty. But he quite failed to feel that realism is entirely a matter of the effect produced and has nothing whatever to do with servile imitation of physical act. If you feel that the scarlet Cardinal and the Catholic Church represent Spain's hope and defiance...