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Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
Even so Ruth Gordon's portrayal of Winsora Tweedle, the native object of his attentions, easily secures the honors. Her acting is the most eloquently inarticulate of all. It isn't nearly so much what she does as the infinite suggestion of what she might do away from the province of condensed Tweedlism that makes her performance a milestone in the season...
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