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...Joan McMurtrey gives a very good and very natural performance as Pfeni, who, as Sara puts it, "is on a permanent junior-year-abroad." McMurtrey is properly zany and funny as the madcap youngest sister and even makes her relationship with Geoffrey seem believable. She is less convincing when agonizing over her career but that is partly the fault of Wasserstein, who, as always, shows more interest in people's relationships to each other than in their relationship to their work...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: American Three Sisters | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...through a tortured scene involving the Concert of Europe without seeming too much of a cliche. Richard Frank walks a similarly thin line as Geoffrey, the bisexual director who proclaims that "love is love, gender is merely spare parts." Frank, entertainingly gay (no pun intended) as he and McMurtrey cavort around the house, is also capable of pulling off quite serious moments in the second...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: American Three Sisters | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...estate (since grown to $89,700,000) left by To- baccoman Duke, state inheritance tax alone was $2,581,366.57. Of this, Somerset County, N. J., is entitled to 5%, which is more than $125,000. Surrogate (Supervisor of Wills) Calvin McMurtrey of Somerset County is expected to get $89,000 in fees. In Somerset County is the 20,000-acre Duke estate, which has 35 miles of paved roads and many fine landscapes adorned with "beautiful statues." There are also Duke homes in Charlotte, N. C., Newport, R. I. and one in Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, which is thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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