The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 1948

Goodbye, My Fancy (by Fay Kanin; produced by Michael Kanin in association with Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) tells of a glamorous, liberal-thinking Congresswoman named Agatha Reed (Madeleine Carroll), who, 20 years after being expelled from college, goes back for an honorary degree. The young professor for love of whom she had been expelled is now the college president (Conrad Nagel). He and Agatha discover that they still love each other, and decide to marry.

But the man, Agatha finds, has changed; he is principally concerned with pleasing trustees and avoiding trouble. She has...

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