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fa By Pamela Shaw
I Bob Barry's mystery 1
be the ideal "whodunnit"
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comes closer to the mark
Presented Thursday as
The Township and spon
"Murder Among Friend
comedy-mystery starring
Turner looked comforl
Forrester, the glamorou
of a rather ordinary acto;
husband, Palmer, was 1
Palmer's agent.
SINCE PALMER woul
her secret lover decide t
and here the play began.
Ted (Spain Logue) d<
routine as the means foi
for the audience's bene
tedious minutes going o1
slow, Turner's red sequit
i| the somewhat hackneyed
Finally, the proposed
adding plot twists ? and
As portrayed by Don M
egc*naniacal actor, the I
hate, just as he should ha
The major plot twist Ted
and Palmer were ale
sleeping with Angela, he1
to top it all off, not only h
Palmer, he had planned
instead of being left witl
left with a who-will-do-it.
^ NEEDLESS TO SAY, I
Act I, with the "robbei
named Larry, who sport
accent. In a moment
sounded offstage, and 1
hand. After a pause, T
bedroom, horror-strickei
the stairs, mortally woun
The rest of the play ir
herrings" and lies: Did I
did Ted die instead of Anj
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'Murder Among Friends" may r
' for which every follower of Agat
n Doyle has been searching, but
than most recent mysteries.
i the first show of a two-night run
sored by the USC Cultural Seru
s" was a slick, occasionally wit
; Lana Turner.
:able in the leading role of Ange
s and extraordinarily wealthy wi
r. Angela, bored and ignored by h
having an affair with Ted Cottc
d not agree to a divorce, Angela a
;o "do him in," as the saying go<
evised the overused fake robbe
* concealing Palmer's murder, a
ifit, he and Angela spent sevei
ver the plan. The scene became
led gown was more interesting th
1 dialogue.
victim, Palmer, arrived to beg
I this play had a multitude of thei
[arston, Palmer was the definiti
kind of snobbish brute one loves
ve been.
- and it is a dilly ? occurred wh
>ne. Sinrmlv statpd not nniv wac t
was also sleeping with Palmer. Ar
ad Ted conspired with Angela to k
with Palmer to murder Angela.
1 a "whodunnit," the audience w
i murder did take place at the end
y" committed by a pseudo-junl
ed a similarly pseudo-Puerto Ric
of delightful suspense, a gunsl
^arry ran out of the house, gun
ed backed slowly out of Palmei
n. A moment later, he collapsed
ded.
lvolved an endless numhpr nf "r
^arry or Palmer shoot Ted, and w
?ela or Palmer? The solution lay ii
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'fjj chloroformed guests in the comedy/
Friends."
as complicated staged murder the pre\
Angela was being blackmailed.
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of almost expected; the audience k
tie contradict the other person's and no
an trusted. Even Angela, by now appar<
lot alibi that could be challenged. All t
in that someone else was going to die, bi
r's Barry did his best to keep anyoi
on vague inkling of how the mystery w<
he used the "never-expect-the-obvio
ed beautifully here. The play ended wit
hy mysteries should, and best of all, tl
i a unique ring to it.
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new each story would without Lana Turnei
one could be believed or dialogue occasionall
3ntly the heroine, had an smooth, but a lack of
hat seemed certain was talents of all involved
ut who? Turner kept things i
le from gaining even a "Murder Among Frie
ould evolve. In doing so, from being her won
us" ploy, which worked person can have enou
h a surprise, as all good and Lana Turner n
tie surprise had a fairly "Murder Among Fri<
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! Thursday performance and the play
ut faults. Turner, who delayed curtain
use of a mild illness, was dazzling in her
costumes, and yet her performance
;dge needed to be sharp.
fine one-liners, such as when she ap'n
and quipped, "I feel like I should sing
tier nevertheless could not find quite
ry off the part as well as she could have.
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mucin, uiuugu, ior ner mere presence
ded the needed glamour to the play,
prises about "Murder Among Friends"
of director Ron Nash in the part of
fe that 95 percent of all directors cannot
stage or screen; Nash is part of the five
as a good actor and good director both
ing players, Martha Webster stood out
thed, boorish friend of the Forresters,
an obnoxious role. Spain Logue, as Ted,
*sk of being the first actor onstage after
ng the first part of his performance to
ih like Turner's. Once he got started,
1 well.
nance of the night was by Don Marston
ner, but, to be fair, it was a result of
upled with the best lines in the play,
lied the first act of the play; Marston
panache and a vigor most of the others
>les, a noticeable lack of smooth, fluid
Ipable from the start. Doubtlessly, this
ling night preceded by only a few days
weeks, the cast, as talented as they are,
ether quite well.
ould not have been carried off as well
r's presence. The plot was good, the
y bright, the characters generally
proper preparation nearly wasted the
inder control in her own way, and, if
nds" was not her best work, it was far
;t. Her participation proved that one
gh glow to make the entire group shine,
lost certainly had enough to make
;nds" a pretty fine play from an only
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