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ELIZABETH BOWEN by Victoria Glendinning. Knopf; 332 pages...
...Texas originated in the Caribbean in the fall of 1976 and spread from there to the United States. A spokes woman for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., said yesterday the disease is a variant of the A Victoria virus, the most common strain of the flu in America in the past several years...
Postel said A Texas is no more dangerous than the common A Victoria virus. He added that anyone innoculated against A Victoria may even have been somewhat immunized to A Texas
...quality and substance of the drama are contained in the interaction of these four characters with the girls next door. The women include Marcie Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...
After the rocky start, all the players turn in topnotch performances, with Lisa Beach standing out, intensifying her role with each word. After throwing away her opening lines like most of her cohorts, Beach ends up carrying much of the comedy and dialogue later in the play. Victoria Allan, Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite...