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Quartermaine's Terms. Quartermaine, an aging instructor at an English school for foreigners, is one of nature's near misses: a decent mediocrity, for whom other people's crises are mere whispers in the anteroom of his mind. In Remak Ramsay's off-Broadway performance, Simon Gray's British import found the perfect pitch of melancholy...
...gentlest and most compassionate play. No stiff upper lips need apply. The drama's hero, or non-hero, might be called "Mr. Cellophane," after a song in the musical Chicago. People see right through him. They scarcely remember his name, though "St. John [pronounced Sinjon] Quartermaine" (Remak Ramsay) seems fairly emphatic. He dozes off in mid-conversation and totally forgets one of his own classes...
...person cast that is admirably flexible, Remak Ramsay is outstanding. He combines a ramrod to-the-manor-born stance with a tissue-thin vulnerability. This holds true through a variety of roles: a small boy who is devastated when a maid (his surrogate mother) tells him that she is leaving to start a family of her own; a middle-aged man painfully humiliated by his teen-age son's awareness of his liaison with his best friend's wife; an old man meticulously detailing his own funeral arrangements to his son while soliciting some final word or gesture...
...Remak Ramsay, stage actor, on why he will not divulge his age: "It would be ungallant. I have a twin sister...
...World War I Britain, involves Ronnie (David Haller), a naval cadet who has been expelled for supposedly stealing a five-shilling money order. Convinced that his son is innocent, Arthur Winslow (Ralph Clanton) launches a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes her spunky, perceptive and vulnerable...