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When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more fortunate than most first novelists in the wealth of sources available for her imaginative reconstruction. She has drawn from the writings of two of France's great literary stylists and keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well...
CHARACTERS AND THEIR LANDSCAPES by Ronald Blythe; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 208 pages...
Certainly the plot, a collage of stylized romantic twists, does not cry out for a sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
...often the actors finish their lines on a note of relief, not flippant joie de vivre. And while the cast is continually singing of frolic, they sometimes pay only lip service to the concept. After a particularly complicated dance scene at the close of "It's Delovely," Hope Harcourt (Eva Yablonsky) throws Billy (Benajah Cobb) a long grateful look.\Maybe it's love, but maybe it's because he didn't drop her. Unfortunately, the show's recurring hints of uncertainty tend to suggest the latter...
Yablonsky also sings very well, particularly in her duet with Billy. "All Through the Night." but is somewhat awkward in her speaking scenes. Strong supporting performances came from Stephanie Gilbert as Bonnie, a warm hearted, fast talking gangsterette and Jessica Beels as Mrs. Harcourt, a woman born to be a mother-in-law Patrick Bradford skillfully plays an imposing Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, Hope's British fiance who embodies starch until he warms to Reno in the duet...