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[[advertisement]] [[image - black & white photograph of Lou Puro]] [[caption]] Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board. El San Juan Hotel. [[/caption]] ...and now let [[underlined]] us [[/underlined]] entertain you at [[image - drawing of the sun]] el san juan hotel ON THE FINEST BEACH IN PUERTO RICO Other exciting value packages also available. Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board・Sam Schweitzer, President. For reservations and information see your favorite Travel Agent, or write or call El San Juan Hotel, 540 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. (212)688-8815. For immediate confirmation of space, call us anytime without charge: 800-221-7144. From New York State, call collect (212)688-8815. ...also visit our hillside of miracles, El Conquistador Hotel and Club, Las Crobas, Puerto Rico. [[/advertisement]] [[advertisement]] [[black and white drawing of a busy restaurant. Patrons in evening wear]] Make History Tonight ...at the fabled Algonquin! Superb Supper and Dessert Buffet - with a celebrated cast. • Dinner: 5:30-9:30 • Supper: 9:30 on...and on HOTEL ALGONQUIN Maitre d': Robert 59 W. 44th St., New York ・ MU 7-4400 Pre-theatre Dinner Guests. Enjoy Complimentary Garage Parking all Evening (5:30 p.m.--2 a.m.) [[/advertisement]] mind seemed to wander often, to other places and other times. Then her voice would be a sad cello, emerging from a prolonged silence, and shift to a different range, up the scale to a shrill soprano when jonquils were identified in a long-ago field, and descend again to a rich bass, accompanied by a girlish gesture that was inappropriate to the sound of her. She had a contemptuous look for the ornaments that made up the "menagerie" and a repeated distressed glance at the grinning photograph of her children's absent father, which caused her to turn upstage so that only her eloquent shoulders and slightly bent back could express her total contempt for the man who had given her so much trouble. She was also able to convey, simply by crossing her tired feet at the ankles, that the elegant girlhood she described so compulsively was a total fiction. Yet the sum of these and other details, which rarely varied in all the performances I saw, is not equal to the total, as a measure of swans' down is said never to equal its weight in gold. She "measured" audiences, too. It was always clear when they were slow to respond, laugh, or settle down into the silence she wanted. She was a trickster with them, always alert to the first significant coughing in the balcony. If the ticket buyers were noisy with handbags, programs or candy wrappers, Laurette knew what to do. I once saw her come far downstage and stare out into the auditorium when the noise had made her pretend to forget her lines, and the spectators behaved like children who had been silenced. They accepted the reproach gracefully, and the stillness that followed was a tribute to the extraordinary lady they have come to see. Once they were silent and attentive, Laurette Taylor gave them the greatest acting performance they could ever have been privileged to see. I can only hope they enjoyed it as much as I did, and that it has taken its proper, exalted place in their memories as it has in mine. William Marchant has been represented on B'way by To Be Continued and The Desk Set. His memoir "The Privilege of His Company - Noël Coward Remembered" has recently been published by Bobbs-Merrill. . .Next month Circle in the Square will present The Glass Menagerie, starring Maureen Stapleton. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[advertisement]] Vladimir Horowitz doesn't star in "Great Performances." He listens to it! [[image - black and white photograph of Vladimir Horowitz]] [[credit]] Photograph by Peter Fink. 1975 [[/credit]] Exxon/New York Philharmonic Radio Broadcasts It's been eight long years since you could turn on your radio every week and hear the New York Philharmonic Orchestra perform. 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