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...When Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe tried out in Wilmington, Del., Star Claudette Colbert realized that the stage adaptation of Oriana Atkinson's Over at Uncle Joe's desperately needed doctoring. "Yet they were just applying poultices where a leg should have been amputated," Claudette recalled. "I asked the producers to close it then and do extensive rewrites-either that or let me out. One of them just turned to me and said, 'I didn't know you were a quitter.' " She stayed, and last week the show had its opening night in New York...
...that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Julia Meade in The Pa jama Game...
...find support for its applicability somewhere in the script. She is utterly chameleonic in behavior, and nearly as complex as Hamlet. But Miss Hepburn's range is far too limited; and she indulges in the sort of pseudo-emotional descending vocal wavering that delighted the fans of Julia Marlowe many decades ago but is now wholly out-of-date. She does, however, deliver some of her vituperative and ironic lines effectively, and manages to achieve a certain dignity in her death scene...