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...distilled silliness of the plot does not aid her. Debbie is Irene O'Dare, an Irish-American piano tuner who lives in a Manhattan Ninth Avenue flat with her widowed mother (Patsy Kelly). On a tuning job at a Long Island mansion, she meets Donald Marshall (Monte Markham), heir to a family fortune. He is so impressed with her commercial savvy that he makes her a partner in a couturier venture sponsoring a man named Madame Lucy (George S. Irving). Love calls; the pair answers. Good night, Donald. Good night, Irene...
Canning's story is brisk, but one cherishes his characters. Blanche Tyler, a blowsily sensual gypsy medium, is commissioned, innocently enough, to locate Shoebridge as the heir to a fortune. Amiable George Lumley, a garrulous middle-aged failure, does Blanche's detective work for a fee-and a night in bed. Then there is Miss Rainbird, a conventional spinster and country heiress out of Jane Austen...
PART OF THE PROBLEM is that the issue begins from a fashionable kind of desperate feminism, of which Virginia Woolf can be seen as a symbol. "Sensibility" itself is a legacy of a thoroughly nineteenth-century, over-sensitized, sitting-room mentality to which Woolf was the direct heir. And like Virginia Woolf, this set of attitudes finds itself caught uneasily between hating and depending...
...family's horror, the proceeds are divided up between this lunatic son and Tucke., the socialist man servant (played by Arthur Lowe whose endearing sarcasms ought to kindle the heart in the bust of Karl Marx). But Jack's relatives devise a plot. Jack must produce an heir and then, if they are to enjoy the revenue as legal guardians of the child, Jack must be proved insane. So he is married off to an actress (Carolyn Seymour...
...town where golf carts have a permanent right of way in crossing Highway A1A, the island's main traffic artery, in front of the Breakers Hotel. It is just the place for alliances of the rich and famous to be born. Silver-haired Jim Kimberly, the Kleenex heir, and his 22-year-old wife Jacquie were out fishing for sailfish a week ago with King Hussein of Jordan, who had made it a point to phone the Kimberlys before meeting with President Nixon in Washington...