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...three town ladies with pretensions to virtue, the Lady Fidget of Christina Pickles comes off best, though more vocal modulation would help. As her sidekicks Mrs. Dainty Fidget and Mrs. Squeamish, Grayce Grant and Joan Pape provide their quota of amusement. Curt Dawson and Ronald Frazier (who likes to smoke a long clay pipe) are a trifle bland as Harcourt and Dorilant, two gallants who envy Horner's success. Rex Everhart, as Sir Jasper, is foolish enough but lacks class, and should be told that the game is blindman's-buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Country Wife' in Bright, Funny Revival | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

DOCTORS ALWAYS LOOK out of place in somber, oaken courtrooms, as if someone in the TV production office had made a mistake and scheduled a segment of the "Bold Ones" on the wrong set. The men in the white coats either fidget nervously in the witness box, or put on a knowledgeable and worldly air, but the M.D.s feel no better under oath than the lawyer feels under the knife...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: The Brain on Trial | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

...large cast sparkles in many of the smaller parts as well. Kenneth Demsky is particularly comic as Sir Jasper Fidget, who delights in mocking Horner, little suspecting that the supposed eunuch is making a fool and a cuckold...

Author: By Ann L. Derrickson, | Title: Theatre The Country Wife at Quincy House tonight | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

...Really, they're turning this building into an armed fortress with locks on everything." Fidget. fidget. "There's nothing critical in here. but last time they just botched up the files so bad we had to spend weeks cleaning them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hall Reacts To Memories of Last Spring | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Thrett are less apparent when they open their mouths than when they take off their clothes, but Jones and Mimieux actually manage to bring an air of wounded innocence to their roles. Jones has an unhappy tendency to recite many of his lines with a kind of Method fidget, but he could yet become one of the better young actors in Hollywood. As Tobey, Yvette Mimieux uses her doe-eyed vulnerability to maximum effect. Her fragile beauty could reduce any ethics professor to acute schizophrenia and radicalize the entire student body of Southern Methodist University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Campus Cutups of 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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