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PRIEST OF LOVE is undoubtedly the longest two-hour movie ever made. Billed as razzle-'em, dazzle-'em intimate portrait of D.H.Lawrence (lan McKellen) and his German wife. Freida (Janet Suzman), the movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies...
Suzman, on the other hand, is given a relatively easier task in the role of Freida. Though adding an unnecessarily, harsh teutonic accent, she brings dimension to Freida that only heightens the absence of a strong Lawrence opposite her. She explains her passion and makes clear her strange love for this strange man, in moving scenes. Incensed at Mabel for questioning whether she is indeed the right woman for Lawrence, Freida launches into a tirade. Her incoherent anger, her rage at abandoning her children 12 years before, the passion so clearly emerging from character development, make us sympathize with this...
Even though Miss Freida Hennock, contacted in Washington, remarked to the CRIMSON: "You've got a lot of money at Harvard. Why don't you get busy and apply for your own station?", the University itself, according to Bailey, is better off as a member of the Lowell Institute. Less money is necessary and more recourses are available...
...left to Harvard yesterday by the will of Mrs. Freida Adler to provide a prize for medical research work in the United States and Canada. The Harvard endowment, will be a permanent fund, the trustees being instructed to invest the money and award the accumulated income every three years to the contribution of the best piece of research work in medical or allied sciences in the United States and Canada...