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...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...
...deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...
Hall to observe the diamond (60th) jubilee of an organization which led a major revolution without splitting an infinitive, breaking a teacup or exploding anything more lethal than an economic theory...
When the Yale Bowl was built, in 1914, slightly envious eyes turned southward, and for almost a decade following, agitation stirred around the Varsity club for the construction of a new stadium to out-class the monstrous New Haven teacup. Finally, in 1929, after holding his thumbs down for two years, President Lowell agreed to allow the addition of steel stands for the Oxford-Cambridge-Yale-Harvard Track Meet. This was the last large work performed on the stadium, and increased its seating capacity to something close to the present 57,426. Nobody much remembers what happened in the English...
...Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...