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...emotional range is too limited, and some of her expressions--like the look of disgust she shoots the men at end of Act II--are absurdly out of character. The humor in Gwndolen's role should stem from her delivery of hard-hearted lines with disarming sweetness. Brooks Clapp totally misinterprets the part, however; icily indifferent, she walks about stiffly with her nose in the air, as though she'd just been starched...
...PRODUCTION of this play which features a Gwendolen who's tougher than her august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...
...Karen Clapp Phaneuf Dallas
Died. Margaret Clapp, 64, for 17 years president of her alma mater, Wellesley College; of cancer; in Tyringham, Mass. Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis, a biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs...
...They did basically what we were asking for--they made clear that when teachers give out information about an exam they should be sure to give it to the whole class," Clapp said...