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...twice Miss Tracy tentatively enters upon her own appraisal of adultery, then apologetically backs off ("Everyone seems to do it now. I wonder hey don't call it something else"). Settled in Chambers ends up tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...
What Elvira Madigan is about is not the wasting away of bodies, but the wasting away of love--even if (or because) that love is an ideal love. Who does not dream of it--fishing in the mirror fjords with a beautiful woman in a long white lace dress, the trout flopping in her lap, and you with your hat slouched over your eyes? Who does not dream...
...exchange stories of their day's experiences in much the same way that kids travelling in Europe trade hitch hiking stories. There's always a man who was drunk when the canvasser called, or a quiet, elderly women who looked like she was straight out of "Arsenic and Old lace...
Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesserling's well-traveled farce about a couple of homicidal spinsters is a gold mine of potential laughs. The current Lowell House production gathers more than a good handful of surface nuggets...
...Cover) It was 9:33 p.m. on a cold and foggy Saturday in Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide...