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...wealthy gentleman described by her father as being "as old as I am." However, before reaching the altar she encounters a storm and a naval officer and each has an equally turbulent effect upon her. Fortunately it's not as trite as all that, for Wendy Hiller portrays Joan Webster, the calculating wonan, with a poise and effectiveness that makes much out of not much of anything. Roger Livesey and the supporting east also contribute an occasional worthwhile moment and, with the assistance of Scottish folk dances and Gaclic singing, the picture becomes quite enjoyable...
...even the acting suffers from failings of the plot when situations arise which either couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Director-Producer-Actress Margaret Webster discusses Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...
...cavalry borrowed the name. Says Webster: " 'Fiddler's Green' is the imagined Elysian field of sailors and vagabond craftsmen, where credit is good and there is always a lass, a glass, and a song...
...genius, according to Webster, is "a man endowed with transcendent ability." Walter G. Bowerman, assistant actuary of the New York Life Insurance Co., is more specific. A typical U.S. genius (male), he says, is 5 ft. 10 inches tall, weighs 175 Ibs., and begets 5.54 children. Actuary Bowerman has 20 years of study to back his findings, published in a new book Studies in Genius (Philosophical Library...