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Jane has little plot; it is a pattern of sharp repartee and character dilineation. Its performers--Edna Best, John Loder, and Howard St. John--strut across the stage, catching epithets and deftly whipping them back. And for at least one whole act--until the wind gives out--Jane sails along lightly and smoothly...
Best Plays (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Blithe Spirit, with John Loder, Mildred Natwick...
Silver Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Four of a Kind, with Faye Emerson, John Loder...
...Loder's interpretation is faultless. His comic timing is just about perfect, and his lines come out with the right mixture of straight-man and exaggeration to put them over, though occasionally he speaks too fast...
...didn't see the Lunts do this play, and it's hard to say how much of the staging is theirs and how much director Harald Bromley added, but the effect is well-knit and unobtrusive. I suspect the Lunts' edge over the Sidney-Loder duo was in making every shot count; some humorously intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long...