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...shrewd a businesswoman as she is a politician, Lady Bird has parlayed an inheritance of $67,000 and 2,900 acres of Alabama cotton and timber land into a radio-TV station in Austin, Texas, four cattle ranches and a bulging stock portfolio. Her estimated net worth is about $5,000,000, but she is thrifty enough to buy "seconds" in household linens. "She asks the price of everything," says a friend. "When the house needs repair work, she gets three estimates." Yet her most notable quality is her capacity for enjoyment. "I wouldn't trade this life...
...Austin has also managed to make Engstrom into a real slap-stick figure who does not fit in with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...
Director John Austin and his cast present Ibsen's Ghosts as the sort of dust-bound "classic" that has lost all ability to convince. The actors do not seem to believe their lines very strongly and they rarely inspire much belief in the audience...
This reflects less on the actors than on Austin, whose direction is an uninspired as the acting. The painfully slow dimming of lights with which he ends his acts simply does not come off. And his handling of the final scene is inexcusable. Ibsen leaves his audience with the horror of Oswald's insanity and Mrs. Alving's terrible indecision whether or not to give him the fatal dose of morphine he requested. Austin gives her time to reach positive decision drawing attention away from Oswald and letting her escape her dilemma...
...Paul Austin, president, Coca-Cola...