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Biographer Thompson died before finishing his third and concluding volume on Frost (it is now going forward under other hands and is expected to be ready next year). In the interim comes a fascinating sketch of Frost's last 25 years, written by the woman who became his secretary after the unexpected death of his wife Elinor in 1938. Kathleen Morrison, the wife of Harvard English Professor Theodore Morrison, was Frost's friend and principal day-to-day protector until his death...
...Joan Pape has a more authentic accent than Maggie, but she is not nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...
James's intention was to reveal the hypocrisies of the snobbish upper classes. His little sketch of Daisy is the portrayal of everything they scorn; even more, it is an affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout...
...short pieces in Beyond Words, a sketch called "A Street Clown," is a tour de force of technical skill in which Martin displays his mastery of traditional forms. He juggles, walks a tightrope--or at least makes it easy to believe that's what he's doing up there on that bare stage. In one truly amazing sequence, as if to show off, he completely alters his expression a dozen times with a passing flash of his hand...
Cinderella Liberty, playing this weekend at the Harvard Square Theatre, is a weakkneed romantical sketch about a sailor who falls in love in Seattle. Both the movie and its star, professional heartthrob James Caan, have all the depth and charm of a puddle. The only reason for going to see such a harmless piece of pudding is that its co-feature, The Heartbreak Kid, is passably good entertainment. This Elaine May-directed ditty takes a funny but not-too-tender look at a poor schmuck who falls in love, after a fashion, with a shallow American beauty, played to perfection...