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...girl who really wanted a serious relationship, Rupert backed and filled, made himself sick and finally fled to the South Seas. He admitted, says Hassall, that "he was, most regrettably, a Victorian at heart." At 27, only a few months before his death, he confessed in a letter to Cathleen Nesbitt, then a struggling young actress, that he was "a cripple, incomplete. . . . I seemed to have missed everything...
Only Debbie Fortson, as Cathleen, seems to understand that there are ordinary as well as pathetic lines in the play, that the juxtaposition of these two elements is what gives the play its beauty. Her side comments are the most human parts of the production, and go a long way to saving it. She also seems most at ease with the Irish rhythm of her lines...
...FARMER'S DAUGHTER (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new series based on the 1947 movie, this time with Inger Stevens as the farm girl, William Windom and Cathleen Nesbitt as the political family she works for. Premi...
...Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic, mysterious and magical as he had planned, but lucid, passionate, realistic, masterly...
Millburn, N.J., Paper Mill Playhouse: A new play by Kieran Tunney, Royal Enclosure, with Celeste Holm and Cathleen Nesbitt...