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Princeton's Debbie Campbell, the tourney's top seed, cruised to the title with a 6-1, 6-3 win over teammate Susie Replogle. Campbell topped Dalton in the semis while Replogle advanced by forfeit against Yale's Natalya Smith...
...strong wind swirling through the Soldiers Field courts figured heavily in the outcome of many close matches. Freshman star Betsy Richmond, playing number one, lost her second match in college tennis, dropping a 6-4, 6-1 battle to Natalya Smith, a top-ranked player. Richmond said after the match that Smith took better advantage of the wind, never losing her serve with the wind at her back...
...Natalya (Tammy Grimes) is a brittle, self-centered wife. Consumed by ennui, she finds her estate-owning hus band Arkadi (Robert Symonds) a total bore. She whiles away the lazy hours with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...
Since this is a play in which talk is often used to hide rather than reveal emotion, Natalya's passion is well camouflaged until she discovers that a similar chemical reaction has set in between her 17-year-old ward Vera (Amanda Michael Plummer) and the tutor. As Natalya schemes against Vera like a soap opera villainess, every sort of womanly hell breaks loose. In the end, Vera, Rakitin and Aleksei depart, leaving Natalya sad der but, one suspects, not a whit wiser...
With a metallic inflection and a singular indifference to the nuances of text - as well as to the presence onstage of her fel low players - Tammy Grimes bestows on Natalya a private life that Noel Coward might have en vied...