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...attention saluting the French tricolor as it flutters from a tall flagstaff. Another German Legionnaire hauls it down. It might be for the last time. But in the Cercle Sportif, the club by the river bank, the French continue to act as they have always done. The Chinese servant is still fairly polite, calls people Honorable or Venerable One as he shuffles around with bottles of cognac and Perrier water...
Edwina Black (by William Dinner & William Morum; produced by Donald Flamm) dies, just before the play opens, of arsenic poisoning. Surviving are an unfaithful husband (Robert Harris), a companion-secretary (Signe Hasso) he has been unfaithful with, and a devoted servant. A Scotland Yard man arrives, scrutinizes, interrogates, looks for clues, makes much of weedkiller, mutters about hand lotion, deliberates, deduces, turns up trumps, unravels...
MacMurray's homestead is equipped with props out of the Coney Island fun house: loose floorboard, collapsing bed, backfiring stove and a small gale that hits at the worst possible time. Heroine Dunne must also cope with livestock and servant problems, gossipy neighbors, a spoilsport (William Demarest) who controls the water supply, and the delicate affections of her husband's two daughters by another marriage...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...
...great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly knew. He came close at times to that terrible condition of the old in contemporary England, who discover that there is no one to depend on and for whom the mere mechanics of living have become tragically difficult. At the illness of a servant during the blitz...