In Good Company

Jennifer Lee Taylor

She balanced a warm inner glow with rapier wit as Elizabeth Bennet in Book-It's Pride and Prejudice, then gave the company a heroine who fit Edna Ferber's description of the cultivated but decidedly not demure Leslie Lynnton in Giant ("wiry as a steel spring, and as indestructible"). She easily carried both shows—Taylor can play a lady without boring you to death. I'd love to see a canny director find some poison beneath the poise. Next: Still pending at press time. (Take note, Big Boys.)

LINDSAY SMITH

Mourner's Crook has a right to grieve— he's been underused.

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