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Bassanio is generally thought to be an attractive young man, "a scholar and a soldier," and, Portia states, "the best deserving a fair lady." But John Cunningham uses an annoyingly exaggerated clipped delivery, and his inflections leave no doubt that he is less drawn to the fair lady than to her wealth ("a lady richly left,"sunny locks. . . like a golden fleece"). And when Shylock puts a finger on his shoulder, he pulls back in a gesture of loathing.M...
...scenes in Portia's Belmont, Ed Wittstein has designed an outdoor garden setting dominated by an enormous tree branch with leaves of -- you guessed it -- gold. Portia appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia...
...rest of the male performances range from mediocrity down to Michael Stein's abysmal Titinius. There are only two small women's roles mid all the masculinity. Elizabeth Parrish's red-headed Calpurnia is acceptable, but Barbara Colby's Portia is monotonously and unmusically spoken...
West Germany's lithe and lively Porsche is the rich man's Volkswagen. Like Volkswagen, Porsche (pronounced Portia) had not altered its size or appearance since it was founded 16 years ago, had nonetheless thrived on constant engineering change and a mystical appeal to buyers, who pay up to $6,300 for the privilege of owning one. Like Rolls-Royce and Mercedes, however, the Porsche has been over taken by the times. It has just brought out two new models that radically de part from the upside-down soupspoon look that has made the Porsche...
...done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post, recently came away from Ashland pro claiming her "the finest young undiscovered actress in America...