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...buckle down to hard work. He takes off for New Orleans with his wife, teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist and joins...
...London, some 200 English friends, Ashanti tribesmen, socialites and Labor Party leaders (notably Aneurin Bevan) gathered for the wedding of Enid Margaret ('Teggy") Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, and Joseph Appiah, 32, African law student and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. When they emerged from St. John's Wood Church and paused for photographs, she in her mother's pearl silk gown, he in the crimson, yellow, black and green ceremonial robe of his tribe, they looked the picture of happy...
...London, Enid Margaret Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined a slight, spectacled law student for an announcement to the press: they were going to be married in July. He was Joseph Manuel Appiah, thirtyish, son of an African tribal leader and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. They had met at a party in London two years ago. As for the problems of an interracial marriage, they had the approval of both families and expected no social difficulties on the Gold Coast, where they will...
Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...Gertie" is not, as the title might suggest, the latest in the interminable line of sugar-coated whimseys dealing with precocious teen-agers. It is, rather, a sophisticated comedy of modern manners, more reminiscent of Noel Coward than of Corliss Archer. Enid Bagnold's dry English wit rescues her new comedy-drama from the pitfalls of its situation and deftly transforms an apparently standard British household into a group of extraordinarily unstandard living people...