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Noel Coward is starring in a play of his own, which attempts to portray the emotional and psychological aspects of a love triangle involving a psychiatrist, his wife, and his lover. The effort to trace the disintegration of his marriage and his personality through a long series of flashbacks produces fine acting and dialogue; it is weakened by the instruction of melodramatic necessities of the plot...
Miss Bergman struggles admirably against these handicaps to portray a displaced Czech who marries a young fisherman solely to escape from the life of a DP camp. The difficulties encountered by the girl in trying to fit into the almost primitive life of her husband's native fishing village on the volcanic island of Stromboli are supposed to lead to her religious conversion...
...Unfortunately in "The Great Lover" the unwilling aficionados are subjected to long sequences in which Roland. Young polishes off a recent Yale graduate with the napkin from a champagne bottle, and a half dozen small children plot together, trying to act grown-up. In addition Hope is forced to portray a character out of North Zanesville, Ohio. He is therefore not nearly so funny as when he is portraying Bob Hope...
...well acted by Barry Nelson) is a saxophone player from the sticks, an easy mark who is fleeced of almost everything but his hopes; the girl (Betty Field) is a dime-a-dancer with a past (which she is living in). Playwright Kanin's slickest trick is to portray their and their neighbors' troubles in the form of little variety turns-a band that plays jazz before swiping the boy's instruments, a vaudeville has-been who bounces into his act, and a landlady with a monologue...
...modern poets. In an illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern poetry...