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Zoe Caldwell performing in a new play, quot;Elective

Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes Photo/ | Zoe Caldwell performing in a new play, "Elective Affinities," in an Upper East Side townhouse.

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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A formal invitation, in handsome script, arrived as email. It seems that Mrs. Alice Hauptmann had extended a "cordial invitation" to an "informal gathering" at her home. The note promised that fine teas would be brewed. Ladyfingers and sandwiches -- without crusts, no doubt -- would be served and, as the invitation almost commanded, "enjoyed."

It was a missive...

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