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...personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually frustrated, but his first example is that of a hard-drinking, warmly honest journalist would-be politician, while in the second play he becomes a man who doesn't drink, is timid with women, and is only sexually perverted...
...diversity of these characters did not reveal how general a problem Rattigan is stating, the lines he employs would, for he is quite explicit. Perhaps too explicit, for in the second play the invalid daughter is so weak as to be dramatically unexciting. She inspires only pity. As a result, the second play becomes almost a melodrama, with the forces of good and evil lined up like the liberals and McCarthy. But this explicitness does allow Rattigan free play to realize many aspects of the problem...
Considering the shift from strong people in the first play to weak ones in the second, a great variety of acting skills are required of Mr. Portman and Miss Leighton. Although Miss Leighton's invalid daughter is a bit too invalid, in general they both prove themselves more than adequate to the task. Mr. Portman especially exudes a warmth and stage personality which is fascinating to behold. If their parts were less exciting, May Hallett and Phyllis Neilson-Terry, two boarders, were certainly competent...
...with the Citizens' Councils alone claiming 500,000 members. Other activities of the pro-segregationists last week: ¶ In a special session of the Florida legislature, the state house of representatives passed four bills to circumvent a state supreme court ruling that the Florida school segregation laws are invalid. The bills would enable county boards of education to assign pupils and teachers to schools on the basis of intelligence, ability, and "cultural background.'' One representative objected that "some Negro pupils have higher IQs than some white pupils." Snapped a backer of the bill: "But who is going...
...Tufts Arena Theater this week is reviving that grand king of all near-farcical comedies, Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire). This final work of the second universal genius of modern theatre can always stand revival; and I don't believe it has been seen here-abouts since the mediocre production at New England Mutual Hall...