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Bond as Gertrude

(IGNA) A one-hour special with Pat Bond playing Gertrude Stein will be aired on PBS on September 20. The title is "Gertie Gertie Gertie Stein is Back Back Back."

The Gay Media Alliance, a watchdog organization, has seen the program and pronounced it suitable for watching. Whether the Alliance has given the show a rating, as with the Legion of Decency of the Catholic Church, is unclear.

The main emphasis of the program is on the literary career of the writer. Her lesbianism, although dealt with, is not the focus of the program.

The press release from the Gay Media Alliance is somewhat contradictory in its information. On the one hand, it reports that Stein moved to Paris to escape what she felt to be "unnatural feelings." On the other hand, Stein is reported to have been "an openly proud lesbian." The latter claim

distorts the historical facts and makes Ms. Stein a gay liberationist when in fact Sam Stewart, who knew her well, and even wrote a book about the letters he exchanged with her and Alice B. Toklas, says that both of them were essentially Victorian women in their discussion of sexual matters and could hardly be called either "open" or "proud."

The Gay Media Alliance. although trying to prevent falsehoods about gay people from appearing in the media, has been criticized in the past for being a lobbyist for "positive" propaganda images of homosexuals at the expense of the whole truth.

Cliff Jarrett, the program's producer, said that there has been no resistance to this projectfrom anyone at PBS. This is despite the fact that anti-gay members of the Mormon Church have recently moved into positions of power at this network.

"Charley's Aunt"

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wooing Fancourt, thinking that he is latching onto a wealthy widow, Robert Ellenstein combines vigor with tight control; not only getting some of the biggest laughs but also contributing immeasurably to the atmosphere of insanity. As the character who makes the biggest fool of himself, Ellenstein never lets the audience forget that Spettigue is also the plays' most stern, pompous and humorless character.

Those playing the two young couples, Jack and Nancy and Charles and Amy, each have just enough material to come up with distinct characterizations and they make good use of it. Daniel Tamm convincingly gets across Jack's brisk and often peremptory manner and Nancy Boykin is

ful-and-domesticated duo. Tho-. mas Waites and Madylon Branstetter emote vigorously without making their characters drippy and without acting patronizing towards them.

As would be lovers who are finding each other again after having been separated for more than 20 years, Patricia Boyle as the real Donna Lucia and John

Milligan as Sir Francis Chesney are both charming and persuasive, giving carefully modulated performances that show the poise that these two characters have been able to gain with age keeping their emotions more on target rather than stifling them.

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piquant and amusing as Jack's Now Open for Lunch

beloved who slows him down with some well timed teasing. As

Charles and Amy, the more bash-

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