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...home-brewed recipe for face cream. When O'Higgins first saw her in 1950-plowing down Madison Avenue, a crocodile bag in one hand and a brown-paper lunch bag in the other-she was the undisputed queen of the beauty industry; he was travel editor of Fleur Cowles' peekaboo fashion magazine, Flair. Sometime later, after an introduction by mutual friends, he was invited to become her personal secretary. His salary was modest ($7,000), and his functions were vague: for a long time he just sat in her office, witnessing conversations and opening and closing doors...
...Knee, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before the wedding he makes a nostalgic trip to provincial Annecy, where he spent his boyhood holidays. There he meets an old friend, Novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu) and two jeunes filles en fleur, Laura (Beatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan...
...behind those downstage. The set also captures the play's ambiguity of place and time, for the background suggests ancient Greece on one side (Ionic columns), Elizabethan England on the other (attractive filigree) and in the middle, where there is a long dark hallway draped with curtains of a fleur-de-lis pattern, an unspecified land of mystery and romance...
...otherwise ordinary elements into their unexpectedly laugh-filled interaction. As Arthur Miller wrote purely gratuitous comedy into his caricature of a Jewish furniture dealer in The Price -and still wound up with a play soberly moralistic-Zwindel hit on a similar expediency to substitute mirth for nerve-frazzling catharsis: Fleur Stein, portrayed with knowing New York Jewish brashness by Rae Allen, shows up unexpectedly with her husband at the Reardon sisters' apartment to deliver a get-well present from the faculty to the outcast Anna. Fleur, however, has in mind a more devious mission. She knows that Ceil Adams might...
...Miss Reardon reaches its apotheosis as entertainment during the Stein's visit, an event which at first seems so peripheral that its very prolongation, with Fleur and Bob making repeated moves toward the door, but encountering repeated delays in departure, generates a sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her chance to pierce the vulgar invaders with insights and wit, surprisingly lucid coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that...