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Along with his other desires, Joe wants Lorna Moon (Paula Wayne), the white mistress of his married fight manager. The love story fails, partly because lovers must be appealing as lovers, interracial or not. Joe, stung by the white world's slights, is full of hate, and no more winning than any other angry young angry. The girl is not a girl but a soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when...
...grandfather said that he was ten years old during the Civil War. His master and mistress were named Mr, and Mrs. Beard. He didn't know his parents, so of course he went by the same name as they did, Beard...
...intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells of her years-long accommodation to her husband's mistress and his four sons, only three of whom are also hers. Another bitterly eloquent, if slightly self-pitying scene is provided by Ben Aliza as the Negro wooer of Iris' younger sister. Shattered to learn that his love has been a high-priced call girl, he recounts a childhood...
...secluded Swiss villa. A black Mercedes 3005 piloted by a beautiful girl roars away into the snowy night. The refugee turns out to have been the ex-chief of Iraq's security forces, who was conspiring against his government. The vanished girl turns out to be his French mistress, Lucia Bernardi. There is a missing suitcase full of documents. There are oil interests. And when the police of three countries are stumped, there is even Piet Maas, a brilliant, disillusioned young Dutch journalist who is told by his boss to Find That Girl! Cut! Next scene: the sunny Riviera...
...hero-victim is a middle-aged solicitor, and it is the hour of his ultimate estrangement. His clients shrug him off. His mistress, wearying of him, cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts...