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...play opens with Dr. Prentice preparing to physically examine a prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay (Susie Fisher). "I wish to see what effect your stepmother's death had upon your legs," he tells her, but his examination is interrupted by his nymphomaniac wife (blatantly portrayed by Deborah Marie Hayes) and one of her pursuers, a bellboy played by Michael Blau...
...four of them then play cat and mouse for a time. Miss Barclay is forced to hide every time Mrs. Prentice enters the room. Mrs. Prentice discovers and confiscates Miss Barclay's dress so that the latter is forced to remain in hiding. The bellboy hides when Dr. Prentice enters and Dr. Prentice--appearing crazier and crazier as the evening progresses--endeavors to conceal Miss Barclay, her underwear and his own true motives and actions...
...Miss Barclay dresses up as the bellboy, the bellboy dresses up as Miss Barclay and then as the policeman, and Dr. Rance displays his psychiatric knowledge by pronouncing everyone mad who attempts to explain their versions of what is happening. "I'm not interested in your explanations," he tells them, "I can provide...
...years. The Trades Union Council, the country's largest labor organization, has demanded that blacks be given the right to join unions and be paid the same wages as whites. Equal pay for equal work has been adopted by the city of Port Elizabeth, the Standard Bank and Barclay's Bank of London, and Polaroid. The idea has become, as the Johannesburg Star recently put it, "as fashionable as hot pants." But in many areas, it will take a long time to close the economic gap. White factory hands earn six times as much as blacks doing comparable...
...AFRAID. It would be so much easier simply to stop now, to choose and be done with it, to leave certain questions unanswered. Aili prods, "Keep going, Mary. Keep going until you know who you are." In the closet, the mannequin (Anne Barclay), an old woman now, with smile frozen, holds up a tattered veil. Frozen stiff with waiting. she holds forth the veil to the younger women; it is their turn to wait. And when He comes, she says, "strangle him with it." One solution...