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...James Armstrong, in motion about the stage is a job equalling in magnitude that of a circus ringmaster. Director Stephen Aaron performs it with skill, and the visual patterns he creates on John Ratte's simple but handsome set are generally attractive. Equally skilled is the choreography of Esther Brooks. She manages to keep the can-can, a dance which often involves more effort than it is worth, from degenerating into chaos. Musical Director John Perkins unfortunately demonstrates a less certain hand. The orchestra occasionally wobbles off key or drowns out the singers...
...result of Abby's fast rise, sister Ann sniffs that Abby is "very imitative." If not imitative, the two columnists have reason to show some similarity. Maiden-named Pauline Esther (Popo) and Esther Pauline (Eppie) Friedman, they are identical (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) twins, who dressed identically until the day they were married (in a double wedding), and still find that they occasionally buy identical clothes in San Francisco and Chicago. Married to wealthy businessmen, they have many of the same friends, share interests that range from psychiatry to Chopin...
...ESTHER RAWDEN Meriden, Conn...
JOURNEY INTO SELF (301 pp.)-M. Esther Harding- Longmans, Green...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...