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This time around the characters are not even wooden-just beaverboard. With one exception. As Alma, Betsy Palmer gives a performance that is touching and precise as a girl with a bad case of the fantods, erotic in the generosity of proffered and unrequited love, and radiant in the intensity of the deepest human feelings...
Mama's Boy. In Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Alma (Betsy Palmer) does not repress or sublimate her passion for John (David Selby), but her relatively outspoken attempts to seduce him are fluttery and amateurish. John, on the other hand, has been turned into a too-decent-by-half mama's boy. He has lost his father in this reincarnation and gained a naggingly intrusive, oppressively possessive mother (Nan Martin...
This route parallels the construction as far as the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, at which point you take two sharp lefts and hopefully find yourself at the left front door entrance to the rink. If not, then hail...
...most major travesties are in the casting. Susan Palmer-Persen plays the intelligent and beguiling Celimene with a lack of elegance and a cloying accent. David Morse, in drag, minces about as the catty society lady Arsinoe; this silly transsexuality proves nothing except the director's incompetence, by this time firmly established...
...Nagle took a one-stroke lead in an international golf tournament at Melbourne yesterday. Nagle, who won the World Seniors in 1971, reached the peak of his career in 1960 when he won the centenary British Open at St. Andrews, staving off the closing charge of a young Arnold Palmer...