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Wishfort’s daughter and co-conspirator with Mirabell is Mrs. Fainall (Rachel E. Flynn ’09), whose husband is having an affair with Mrs. Marwood (Sophie C. Kargman ’08), a woman who is trying to thwart Mirabell. Wishfort wants Millament to marry Sir Willful Witwoud (Rob D. Salas ’08), a loud and crass gentryman from the countryside, whose brother (Barry A. Shafrin ’09) lives in the city and has become a full-time fop who helps Mirabell with his schemes. Got all that...
...Most of the time, the acting serves to smooth over confusion about the details of the plot, rather than exacerbate it. However, in some scenes with Mr. Fainall and Mrs. Marwood, their emotions seem to have been picked at random...
...While it’s amusing when their dialogue is interspersed with frantic kissing during a meeting in a park, it’s just plain odd in other scenes. For instance, at one point, Marwood is in tears as Fainall chokes her while they attempt to work out a plan to foil the hopes of Mirabell and Millamant and gain their fortunes...
Nina Jeffers, as Lady Wishfort, and Nancy Volkman, as Mistress Marwood may be distinguished chiefly by their unintelligible accents. Miss Jeffers fail completely to convey the underlying desperation of Lady Wishfort, which, to a large extent, is what makes the play so extraordinary...
Holding his first annual cattle auction at his farm near Carthage, Tenn., Democratic Senator Albert Gore unloaded 51 females and four bulls for a tidy gross of $69,530. Observing the auction, Artist-Author Ludwig (Hotel Splendide) Bemelmans was so carried away by Miss Burgess of Marwood, a Black Angus yearling heifer, that he got her for $1,250. "She had such a kind face," Bemelmans explained, "I couldn't keep from buying her. I also liked the idea of keeping her for a pet, not raising her for slaughter." To put Miss Burgess up, Bemelmans will...