Full of Malice

This is a light comedy concerning the American Army of Occupation in Okinawa. Based on a play by John Patrick which is based on a novel by Vern Schneider, it shows the Forces of Democracy doing the best they can to teach the Primitive Simple Island Folk the elementals of Western democracy. At the same time they are forced to recognise, as one of the characters puts it, that "East is East and West is West, and there shall be no twain".

The film keeps very close to the play, and those who saw the latter performed here by an overseas company some while ago will remember it as a very pleasant comedy with serious undertones, which towards the end become somewhat heavily symbolic overtones. Apart from this. "Teahouse" struck me as a highly amusing piece which at limes was quite hilariously funny. In particular, Colonel Wainwright Purdy Ill's telephone conversations were sidesplitting in both play and film.

Glenn Ford plays Fishy, the scatterbrained young captain who is bent on pulling democracy across to the oppressed natives. (He had begun in the Army in the Pay master-General's office, in charge of a computation.

Since a Salient reviewer looked at Louise Overacker's article in "American Political Science Review" on the N.Z. Labour Party, V.U.C.'s own "Political Science" has brought forth the first part of an excellent comparison by the same lady of the N.Z. and British I about Parties.

The second part of this study is in the new issue of "Political Science" justout, which is heartily recommended to all politically conscious readers.

The contrast between the two Parties does not (as may be imagined) favour little old New Zealand. Our Labour Parly's concentration on vote-winninfi at the expense of doctrinal coherence may be its downfall, as the reverse seemsto have put new life into its British counterpart.

—Partisan.