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With scarcely a harsh word spoken and no show of disorder beyond a cut telephone wire, the fat burglar and the thin managed to filch 600,000 francs in bills from Engineer Henri Berger's office safe and persuade Henri to order another 6,000,000 sent over from the safe in his apartment...
...most remarkable men in Trinidad is a thin, leathery mulatto known as Attila the Hun. Born in Port-of-Spain 58 years ago of a Venezuelan father and a West Indian mother, he claims, to have been singing calypso songs for half a century-"long before they took it out of the backyard slums and put it on Frederick Street." His Rover Calypso Tent, made of sheet iron and boards on Frederick Street, the town's main street, is the island's calypso center...
There is, however, no way Mr. Amory can keep his overdrawn satire from wearing thin near the end. By the middle of the book, he has proved that Mitch Hickok is simple, pure, and good, and that Bill Devereux is cynical, illiterate, and evil. Since the rest of the book merely repeats this, the humor gets repetitious and loses its sharpness...
...though the play breathes the spirit of the story, it does not exert the same spell. Often it cannot: some of the finest moments are lost to the stage. On its own terms, The Innocents is a little too thin: often fascinating, always atmospheric, it has few real outward thrills, little real inner tension. Its best scenes involve the children, brilliantly played by Child Actors David Cole and Iris Mann. As the governess, Beatrice Straight offers competence faintly tinged with monotony...
...Book I he sketches the "elemental character" of the city and paints vignettes of early settlers. In Book II he walks through the park and counts lost souls: lovers who do not love, an evangelist to whom no one listens, the D.P.s of any modern city with "minds beaten thin by waste...