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...Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays him a dirty trick. "She smashed me koyte...
...Bishop was Melanesia's Walter Hubert Baddeley, now homewardbound to England after twelve years in the South Pacific. To get around his thousand-island see, he has sailed some 23,000 miles a year in his 300-ton ship, The Southern Cross...
...Bishop Baddeley's war service has been to keep his natives loyal to Britain and the U.S. Military officials, grateful for the way islanders have helped beat the Jap and rescued many a U.S. serviceman, give full marks to the Anglican Church's 96 years of work in the islands. When the Japanese invaded Florida Island, the Bishop and his charges took to the jungle, lived "like rabbits" until the Japanese had been routed...
...prologue, a judge denies the appeal of a man convicted of two atrocious murders, whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that...
...yards, L. Junker, L. A. C., 10 1/5 sec.; quarter-mile, J. Shearman, L. A. C., 52 4/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 1/5 sec.; seven-mile walk, H. Venn, L. A. C., 52 min. 25 sec., first mile in 6.35; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Cambridge, 22 ft. 8 in.; high jump, G. Tomlinson, 5 ft. 10 1/4 in.; four-mile run, J. Gibb...