Word: petkoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair elevates the entertaining production of Arms and the Man that was launched at the Loeb main stage last week. Director Evangeline Morphos takes care of that early in the first act when, in a neat libidinization of the bloodless original stage directions, she contrives that our heroine, Raina Petkoff, must sit on Bluntschli's revolver after the fugitive Servian captain has clambered through her window and taken refuge in her boudoir. Hoo-ha! What's more, H. Rodney Clark's Bluntschli is such a card, and Anne K. Ames's Raina such a flighty creature, that the Shavian prospect...
...Loeb performance succeeds winningly when contrasting the Bulgarians' demeanor to Bluntschli's, and would seem to be intended to go off on this level. The message of the production, then, is that if you never bathe you will, according to Major Petkoff, probably live to be 98, but you will certainly not get the girl...