At Madam Muriel's
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What happens to children whose mother's acting career is well past its peak? When she's working they follow her from one lot of lodgings to another; when she's searching they're palmed off on largely unwilling friends - like Madam Muriel who runs a third-rate stage school. It's an interesting theme and on the whole a more realistic tale than its poor title and cover suggest. It slows a bit in the middle and the Community Service Groups kids are not terribly convincing. But the two central characters - Delia (12 and moody stage-struck sister Nell (14) - are well drawn; and an all-round happy ending is commendably rejected.