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...sweeps Edna Best, wearing a stomacher, a red wig and a putty nose. Though a skilled actress, she is miscast and overplays the vulgarity of her role as she declaims fake-heroic verses, shouts uncomfortably ribald asides, and trails behind her a retinue of hairdressers, manicurists and poets. William Windom and Harry Bannister are effective as youthful and aged incarnations of women-chasers. Superbly costumed by Motley, Colombe is played against Boris Aronson's fine settings-a gauzy, grey-and-golden evocation of the Paris of yesteryear. The language of the Kronenberger adaptation has a French clarity as well...
...WINDOM'S WAY (286 pp.) - James Ramsey Ullman-Lippincott...
Window's Way, by James Ramsey Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what to do when the government troops retreat. Shall he retreat with them, or stay on, in Red territory, and do what he can for the peasants? His wife deserts him, and friends misunderstand him, but Dr. Windom, caring more for people than for isms, decides to stick...
...book opens, Justice Windom is preparing a radio address for the troops overseas, trying to define what they are fighting for: the founders of the nation had had a vision-"unity and common understanding there had been ... but the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded . . . yet there always arose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start...
...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...