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Miss Isabel (by Michael Plant and Denis Webb) is Shirley Booth, but even that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...
...credit for this constantly engaging role goes not just to Huxley but also to Alan Webb, whose face, postures, coughs, and general acting of the part come close to perfection. This portrait of a professor deserves to be seen and remembered...
...West is the Desert. Anybody at all familiar with the West is certainly aware of the importance of the Desert in shaping the lives of the inhabitants of the region, but to say the Desert is the only physical characteristic of the West is a gross over-simplification. Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, has had his conception of the West shaped by the Great Plains, which served as the title of his greatest book...
...Webb certainly knows about the dryness of Texas and the Great Plains, but he is not sufficiently aware of the mountains and verdant, irrigated vallies of the Northern Rocky Mountain States. Another weakness in his analysis of the character of the West is his lack of concern with the social implications of a recently-settled society which relies on irrigation. This society tends to be much less rigid and more communal, than that of, say, the Midwest...
...despite Webb's superficiality, his is the best essay in the book. The other essays try to examine various aspects of the cultural history of the West, but they mainly succeed only in relating factual anecdotes...