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Divorced. By Glynis Johns, 32, slant-eyed, South African-born British cinemactress (Miranda, The Court Jester): David Ramsey Foster, 34, Manhattan businessman; after four years of marriage, no children; in London...
Glen Bowersock, as Prospero, gives a smooth performance, but fails to convey the full significance of the magician's own transformation. Nancy Curtis is a perfect innocent as Miranda, and carries off some of the finest lines in the play with irreproachable style. Competence prevails among the other members of the cast, and Jay Shuchter and Harry Bingham rise well above this level as Antonio and Sebastian...
...play itself is about a deposed king named Prospero and his beautiful daughter Miranda; and the autics Prospero, who has magical powers, plays on the usurpers when they are shipwrecked on his island. This is believed to be Shakespeare's last play, and in it is found some of his most beautiful poetry...
...Some notable pals who walked the plank in earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired...
...charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go." This time, after a few days of dalliance on the island of Burano, Hepburn goes home. Isa Miranda and young Gaetano Audiero help make Venice seem appealing, while MacDonald Parke and Jane Rose work hard as comic U.S. tourists. The Eastman Color and the camerawork by Jack Hildyard are superb...