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Arthur Penn has staged the play admirably. Jason Robards Jr. as Julian, Anne Revere as his older sister and Rochelle Oliver as his wife give solid performances. Maureen Stapleton's conniving sister is full of fascinating detail; as Julian's mother-in-law, a cool, unsentimental woman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

The Best of Husbands (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952) and The Secret (TIME, Oct. 13, 1958) dwelt on the theme that husbandly indifference is the most deadly of marriage-killing diseases. The heroine of her latest novel is not married at all, but she makes, ironically enough, a less than original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of One's Own | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Yet in this dream world of the emancipated woman, something seems to be missing-in fact almost everything. Irene has left the church; yet she envies those women who can sleep with a man and achieve real contrition at confession. Her lover respects her passion for freedom; yet she is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of One's Own | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of One's Own | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Between Then and Now does not promise that, as a result of her new understanding, Irene will change completely.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Room of One's Own | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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