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Sharing the limelight with Seltzer is Nancy Gustafson as Patience, the pure-hearted, affectation-hating country girl. Clad in a yellow and white dirndle, Gustafson acts the part with a winsome wholesomeness and devotion to duty. Her scenes with Archibald, particularly when she alternately begs him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "think of me sometimes" and warns him to "advance at your peril," are especially fine. But Gustafson's talents are most in evidence when she launches into song. Her strong, pure soprano elevates Patience's plight to operatic heights, her superb diction rarely obscuring Gilbert...
Displaying the charms of Model Carol Gustafson on the cover [March 22] of a magazine that has in the past presented such noble visages as Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger is ... is ... delightful...
Model Carol Gustafson turned women black with envy and men red with hot flushes. You really did it this time...
Still, the number of TV and stage performers remains a fraction of the conjuring work force. Most well-paid magicians work at trade shows, parties and conventions where the fees can reach $2,500 per diem. Dick Gustafson, a former chemist, derives a nearly six-figure income from trade shows. "It's no trick," he insists. "For example, I link steel rings together at a show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne...
...ineffectual old radical whose one positive act is a negative sacrifice, Morris Carnovsky strikes just the perfect understated note of pathos as Jacob, the part he played almost forty years ago in the original Group Theater production. As the domineering Jewish mother with implacable bourgeois aspirations, Carol Gustafson succeeds as the dislikable antagonist Bessie Berger with a tongue and manner as commanding as any lower-middle class Jewish mother struggling for the good life in America. Though Gustafson kibitzes a bit too much her performance lets us see, as Ralph comes to see, that life made Bessie...