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Eliot's play revolves around the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and their intimate friends. In the course of the play the Chamberlaynes work through a crisis in their marriage and learn a great deal about themselves and their friends...
Edward (Dick Robinson) comes home from work minutes before he and his wife Lavinia (Olivia Holmes) are to give a cocktail party, only to discover that she has left him. Though he tries to cancel the party, he is unable to reach all the guests and to prevent them from coming...
...pieces she read, called "Lavinia," is based on the life of her grandmother, a Russian Jewish emigre. But the contemporary narrator is an elderly Black woman...
...guess. But is Lavinia wicked, really...
...course, Lavinia is wicked. And of course, she gets what she deserves, in an upper-class Washington, well-bred sort of way. The stereotypical WASP ice-week floating through life manipulating all comers, Lavinla does exactly what's expected from her marries well, reproduces, continues to make other people's lives miserable She's smart but so shallow that it's hard to tell if she recognizes the in significance of her own existence. After a while, you realize you've seen it before and, what's more, don't particularly care...