Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HACK by Wilfrid Sheed. 279 pages. Macmillan...
Imagine, if you will, for one heart-stopping moment a production of The Yeomen of the Guard that included Doris Day as Phoebe Meryll, Joey Bishop as Jack Point, Jerry Lewis as Wilfrid Shadbolt, and a Colonel Fairfax whose singing voice is an engaging blend of Richard Dyer-Bennett and Rudy Vallee; and having in this manner proved yourself capable of the requisite amount of mental contortion, return with the now to consider briefly a new production of the Yeomen by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players that I and others sat through last night...
...Despite an overly cute central idea and the flim-flamboyance of Star Susan Hayward, competent script and direction make this a pleasant political coimdy about the road from bawdyhouse to Governor's mansion. Britain's Wilfrid Hyde White is superb as a major political snake...
...forgiving soul, the reformed hussy determines to do good to the society that has done her wrong, but she soon discovers to her horror that politics is perceptibly dirtier than prostitution. The state is owned by a pawky old politician (Wilfrid Hyde White) who rules it with an iron hand-strongly magnetized to pick up loose change. When the new Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals...
...author, Wilfrid Sheed, 30, an Anglo-American-Australian (and son of U.S. Roman Catholic Publisher Frank Sheed), has written a quiet, sound little story, but probably one destined to make a punctuation mark in the long catalogue of those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The book denotes a haunting change since Max Beerbohm's glittering undergraduate duke, orator, wit, scholar and élégant set Zuleika Dobson and the Isis on fire, or even since Waugh's Lord Sebastian Flyte lugged his Teddy-bear to the barber...