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Mistress Alithea (Sally Faith Dorfman) is the only one who does not what to join in the sport. She sincerely believes in fidelity, yet even she is not a completely positive figure. Her virtue appears ridiculous because her finance. Sparkish, to whom she is so stubbornly faithful, is the most absurd...
...Winthrop players do all this, and do it well. Stanley F. Pickett as Mr. Horner is a grinning, leering wonder. Yet his part is perhaps easier than those of Mr. Pinchwife (Michael Rowan), and Mr. Sparkish (Howard Kramer), and Sir Jasper (Chuck Breyer). Rowan creates a convincing picture of a blustery old fool; Kramer is the biggest, dumbest fop you or I have ever seen; and Breyer is hilarious as the Ed Wynn-ish cuckold...
...costumes were excellent, especially the fantastic ones Robert Fletcher designed for Sparkish, which contributed no small amount to Mr. Ritchard's successful carrying off of that role...
...Ritchard's wife, Madge Elliott, cannot do the same for the part of Alithea, betrothed of Sparkish and beloved of Harcourt. Alithea is an aberration on Wyncherley's part: she is a moral figure in a profoundly immoral play, and is completely out of place. No actress could have made Alithea seem natural in the rollicking atmosphere of "The Country Wife...
...uniformly excellent. I especially enjoyed Thayer David's gross portrayal of Sir Jasper Fidget, though Earl Montgomery, Bryant Holiday, Eleanor MacLean, Leslie Paul, Naomi Raphaelson, and Jeanne Tufts all perform well. Kenneth Scott was imperturbably droll, though silent, in the part of Balthazar, a little colored boy who attends Sparkish (in its zest for "business" the Brattle group created this role out of thin...