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Joan Tolentino as the mayor's wife was only to Schmidt in talent, and Laura did a job as the flighty daughter. Other the east, especially the town official, usually had one humorous bi-- a way of talking, etc--which began pale about the fifth time it was used...
Rice, who changed his name in 1919, is curiously reticent about naming his loved ones. His first wife, to whom he was married for almost 30 years is never identified* and while he admits numerous extramarital affairs, only one of the ladies is given a name, and that one-"Laura"-not her own. But where the heart was not involved, Rice is free with names: Robert Sherwood Maxwell Anderson, Thomas Wolfe ("He always struck me as gauche, self-conscious and morbidly self-absorbed As for his books, I have never been able to get through any of them...
Four actors are assigned the protean labor of deviding twenty roles among them. The task of creating four or more characters is a challenge which, unfortunately, none of the performers meets with total success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand...
Clayton Koelb, the Baron, and Laura Esterman, his wife, had deceptively complex roles, and neither succeeded in exploring thoroughly the intricacies of his part...
...over-polished, some of the minor characters actually add a great deal of the life and spark. John Williams is a fine horse trainer, Robert Lanchester a stately, ageing butler, and Timothy Mayer a wonderful Old Family Servant who often draws as many laughs as any of the principles. Laura Esterman was quite impressive as Philip's aged, senile mother...