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Four of the members of the Committee--Vivian Henderson, President of Clark College in Atlanta; Louis D. Rich, a Radcliffe trustee and associate director of the College Entrance Examination Board; Andrew Billingsly, vice president for academic affairs at Howard University; and, Wade H. McCree Jr., a member of the Board of Overseers and a U.S. Appeals Court judge in Detroit--were selected from outside the University...
Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...
...Vivian's lover, or suitor, follows her around on a big horse, appearing at odd moments out of the bushes. Her father (Ruby's brother) trying out a new sit-down lawnmower given to him for his birthday, detects the presence of a stranger when he discovers a pile of horse dung on the lawn. But he is too late: Vivian has already climbed out of her bedroom and is riding away with her arms around her lover...
...PHOTOGRAPHY throughout is unpretentious and lets the story proceed, except for a minor lapse when the camera jazzily sweeps over Vivian's face again and again. There are some good moments of visual humor--Ruby's feet descending a staircase, Ruby's great big bus and Earl's tiny sports car leaving the driveway of the nightclub simultaneously, and a few parodies of romantic absurdities like those in A Man and a Woman...
This is the finest production of a play ever mounted at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The cast has been infected with the playwright's ethical fervor, and all its members deserve praise. In addition to Foxworth and Henry, three others win special laurels: Stephen Elliott as a pitiless magistrate, Pamela Payton-Wright as Foxworth's seductress, and Philip Bosco as a deeply troubled Christian minister...