Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rattigan has woven the supporting parts masterfully into his exposition, and the players have given them faultless renditions. Nigel Patrick, who as Mrs. Crocker-Harris' lover does most of the page-turning, Wilfrid Hyde White as the suave old headmaster, and Brian Smith as a student who wants to pity and like "the Crock," are particularly good. But Michael Red-grave in the leading role is the star in every way. His portrayal of a man who has turned all his frustrations against himself to satisfy his wife's characterization of him and has sought refuge in the most utter...
...spirit contacts to his adored mother, whose constantly lighted portrait dominated King's Ottawa study and first awakened his interest in spiritualism. According to the spiritualists, King often attended two seances a week when he was in Britain, and communicated with other dead relatives, with his predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with the late President Franklin Roosevelt, and even with Pat, his departed Irish terrier...
...year, is a failure to his fingertips, as teacher, husband and colleague. His heart is failing, too, forcing him to leave his job, to no one's regret. Stuffy and coldly embittered, he is derided by his pupils, who call him "The Crock"; patronized by the headmaster (Wilfrid Hyde White), who is ready to withhold his pension; cuckolded by a younger instructor (Nigel Patrick), who vaguely pities him; despised by his wife (Jean Kent), who is not only unfaithful but keeps him fully posted on her infidelities...
Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine...
...responsible for transplanting the tune is Wilfrid Thomas, Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent Columbia Records' British affiliate on a hot-breathed search for the old master copy of the Chinese record. Their Far Eastern division finally uncovered it in India, flew it to London...