Word: tarletons
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BORN: Oct. 26, 1938, Stamford EDUCATION: Tarleton State Junior College, 1957-59; Texas Tech, B.S., 1961, M.S. 1962 FAMILY: Wife, Cynthia; three children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Cotton farmer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1978- ADDRESS: Box 1032, Stamford...
...peevish, bespectacled cream-puff bears out this description. But, as Hypatia confides to her mother (Bronia Stefan Wheeler), she doesn't love him, and can't see how anyone could; she simply can't find anyone better. Besides, she adds, marrying for love is too risky. Mrs. Tarleton comments that finding a likable husband was easier for her because she grew up poor and "there's so many more poor men in the world than rich ones, so I had more of a pick...
...other characters are similarly frustrated with the gaps between words and reality. When Julian Baker (Thomas Derrah), the socialist son of Tarleton's old mistress, arrives and tries to kill Tarleton, he first tries to justify the murder in true bourgeois fashion, saying he's avenging his mother's "ruin...
...American Repertory Theatre's production of Misalliance is quite professional. The actors have been coached to speak with British accents which closely aopproximate the real thing. As Tarleton, Jeremy Geidt affects an accent slightly less refined than that of the aristocratic characters, a fine touch in such a class-conscious play...
...Smith as Bentley, the neurotic upper-class twit, and Stephanie Roth as the energetic yet graceful Hypatia. The stage, designed as a summerhouse with a marble fountain, captures that Edwardian spirit of gracious and confining domestic life, complete with a back wall made of a metal grille. For the Tarleton family, domestic life is truly a gilded cage...