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...this game of verbal lawn tennis, the two bogus brothers are matched with two demurely saucy maidens. As Cecily Car dew and Gwendolen Fairfax, Kathleen Widdoes and Patricia Conolly lob and volley Wilde's lines with devastating precision. The Fourth of July will be a little early this year. Over Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, comic flares light the night...
During the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Virginia's Fairfax County school board decided to build an innovative, energy-saving school. Blueprints called for a partly solar-powered building, buried underground so that the heat generated by students, lights and machinery would not escape. When the board took its plan to the federal Energy Research and Development Administration in search of a grant, it got nowhere. Then, a Washington consultant for Saudi Arabia, who had read about the school, asked the board if it would be interested in a "private" investment. It was, and a $700,000 grant from...
...Wild's lines are virtually actor-proof, bacause in the Leverett House production they need all protection they can get. The problem begins with director Samuel Bloomfield's conception of the play. The two sets of main characters--Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the spoiled, young dandies, and Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, the vain, young ingenues who wish for beaux named "Earnest"--should appear essntially interchangeable. Otherwise, the contusion of identities in the second act and the symmetry of the romantic pairings at the end make little dramatic sense...
Diane Bright Fairfax, Calif...
...Warm Springs in Virginia's Berkeley County that draw the most notable visitors (500 to 600 at once). General Washington has gone there to seek relief from rheumatic fever. Washington originally surveyed this area when it belonged to Lord Fairfax, who later donated the springs to the province "so that these healing waters might be forever free to the publick, for the welfare of suffering humanity." Next fall, however, the Virginia legislature is expected to establish a town of Bath at Warm Springs and to sell off 50 acres in building lots to anyone who wants to build houses...