Word: christianis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...L.H.D.S. people do much toward brightening the mediocrity. (The costumes by Peggy Decker and Judith Kuznets are especially sumptuous and picturesque.) In the leading role, William Graham makes a dignified and interesting figure out of Gogol's pompous cold. Karen Christiani as the object of his apprehensions is rather more wooden than the role requires, but ingenuous and pretty. Many of Alison Keith's lines ring hollow, but her matchmaker is a lively old rip, and she's funny, so what the hell. John Wolfson is occasionally funny as the friend who actually makes the match, but familiarity lessens...