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FRANCIS THOMPSON & WILFRID MEYNELL (212 pp.)-Viola Meynell-Dutton...
...revenue and expenditures widened by $2,800,000 a day. At week's end, to fill civil servants' wage packets, the treasury asked the ailing Bank of France for a loan of 50 billion francs. It got only 25 billion, and a sharp reminder from Bank Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner: "The state, like its citizens, is living beyond its means...
...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...