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...short order, Martin develops a tingling interest in Palmer's half sister Honor Klein, an eerie anthropologist given to such parlor tricks as decapitating a kabuki doll with one swish of a samurai sword. Even more unnervingly, she turns out to be sleeping with her half brother. By this time, Georgie has taken up with Martin's brother, a sculptor. The final curtain finds Palmer with Georgie, Antonia with the sculptor, and Martin with Honor Klein...
...submissive to his wife, who is an older woman, a child-to-parent relationship, and protective to his mistress, who is about 20 years younger, a father-to-daughter relationship. At play's end he is repeating his submissive role to an even more aggressive personality, Honor Klein...
...mythic level, the play is more opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness." These occult beings appear in rooms whose doors have not been opened, but a more tangible proof of godhood is their incestuous relationship, which sets them apart from the others and constitutes normal behavior only among gods. By making Honor the more powerful...
Died. Dr. Rufus ("Rex") von Klein-Smid, 89, president of the University of Southern California from 1921 to '46, a crusty, controversial administrator who expanded U.S.C.'s plant from three to 22 buildings, increased enrollment from 5,000 to 12,000 and concentrated hard on a championship football team, but paid his professors minuscule salaries (some got as little as $2,600 a year); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
Thus everyone shares time's cruel burden, trapped by the memory of transient pleasures impossible to renew, tragic errors impossible to erase. Only the nubile "niece," played with a fine flair by Nita Klein, escapes untouched for now. "I've had enough of this dump with all its memories," she snaps, and takes herself right back to Paris...