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...individual performances range through several varieties of flatness. Nina Jeffers displays little plausible emotion in her role as Mrs. Alving, although she improves in the scenes with her son, Oswald, played by James Laferla. Laferla's low-keyed mumbling may be appropriate to the depressed Oswald, but it soon becomes, boring. He has some good moments, however, which is more than one can say for Peter MacLean as Reverend Manders...
...less on the actors than on Austin, whose direction is an uninspired as the acting. The painfully slow dimming of lights with which he ends his acts simply does not come off. And his handling of the final scene is inexcusable. Ibsen leaves his audience with the horror of Oswald's insanity and Mrs. Alving's terrible indecision whether or not to give him the fatal dose of morphine he requested. Austin gives her time to reach positive decision drawing attention away from Oswald and letting her escape her dilemma...
...reported from Dallas early this morning that Oswald has been charged by police with the murder of President Kennedy...
Late yesterday afternoon, Secret Service men and Dallas police arrested a 24-year-old stock clerk on suspicion of murdering the President. Before he was apprehended, the suspect, Lee H. Oswald, shot and killed one of more than 200 policemen moving in on him in a Dallas movie theater...
...Oswald was identified as chairman of a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee...