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Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect...
...time the actors would parody their parts--which would not be hard. Occasionally the masks would have fallen off. This too would have echoed a theme of the play: pretense vs. reality. The effect would have been outrageous. At one point last night Ellery Akers (Lucille) and Peter Johnson (Blanchard) came close to this style. they played the beginning of the third act like an episode out of "I Love Lucy." But the characters never dropped their masks. Their real emotions never became apparent. The scene subsided from farce to mediocre acting...
Johnson plays the self-important Blanchard at a youthful egotist. I had expected Blanchard to be older. Johnson's approach works for the first half of his part, but he can't get adequately unreasonable...
...next morning Lucille has contracted the opinion that her unconscious revel makes her Marcellus' wife. Since she desires to remain married to her husband, Justice. Blanchard, she asks Marcellus to kill himself. That way, when Blanchard returns from his trip, she will be pure as before. Marcellus thinks a continued affair would be more in order, but Armand opportunely arrives to challenger him because of his former liaison with Paola Armand declares he will fight for Lucille instead. Marcellus obliges and is killed...
That doesn't help matters any, however, because Blanchard comes home a day early, and Lucille, feeling herself as yet metaphysically uncleaned, tells all. Blanchard departs in a huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove...