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Within the limitations of this plot, the acting is superb. The teacher, played by Dorothea Wieck, is effective because she acts with amazing restraint. Hertha Thiele, as the tear-stained orphan, is occasionally coy, but she is usually anemic, thus revealing her psychological state. Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that...
...Gills are not very eccentric; neither are they hobos in the accepted sense of the word. John Gill, at 66, is a former member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Refining Co. His wife, who is 15 years younger, is a cultured Philadelphia matron. In 1951 Dorothea Gill persuaded her husband to retire and take a short trip to Europe. The trip lasted four years, and the Gills discovered that they saw and learned a great deal more by walking than riding. So they walked...
...around ten miles on foot in an average day, have no use for timetables, spend as much-or as little-time as they wish in each town. Although they are well heeled, the Gills live and travel modestly: whenever possible, they look for a place with cooking facilities, and Dorothea Gill prepares the family meals...
...Australia. Eventually, when they become too feeble to keep up with their walkathon, they hope to pick out the pleasantest town they have seen and settle down. It will be a difficult decision to make. "I have the names of a thousand towns jotted down in my notebooks," says Dorothea Gill, "and after each one I have the notation, 'This is the place I'd like most to live...
Besides such episodes, the patient-playwrights included ballets, because they thought the dance could express feelings (in Dorothea Dix's dreams of fear and desolation) that they could...