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...Nina Kuntsly, head of the Lowell House Committee, recently proposed dropping all barriers as an example, and recently convinced the Master to buy extra tables to end no interhouse...
Although women writers have held a conspicuous place in the history of modern Russian literature, they have been slow to find their true voices in exile. But a few, like Playwright Nina Voronel, 51, are beginning to be heard by non-Russian audiences in the West. Voronel, consistently thwarted in her attempts to write for the Soviet theater, has had two one-acters produced off-Broadway. In Israel, where she now lives, two full-scale plays have been performed, and a movie and a TV drama have been based on her scripts. Like most emigre authors, Voronel is still drawing...
Equally good are the sequences in Hillsboro, where the rogues finally go too far in trying to victimize three orphan-sisters, well-played by Karen MacDonald, Marianne Owens, and Nina Bernstein. These scenes also contain the most effective musical number. "You Ought to Be Here With Me"--a song in which the intentional use of AM-radio cliches transcends the genre as it fails to do so in other numbers...
...Nina Chien...
...Dinner, the character based on Coward is parodied with a convoluted song Porter wrote for the occasion: "Oft in the nightfall/ I think I might fall/ Down from my perilous height; Deep in the heart of me,/ Always a part of me,/ Quivering, shivering light." Coward responded with Nina who "declined to begin the Beguine/ Though they besought her to/ And in language profane and obscene/ She cursed the man who taught her to,/ She cursed Cole Porter...