The Old Friends ****
                      By: David ShewardHallie Foote, Betty Buckley, Cotter SmithThe plays of the late Horton Foote (The Trip to Bountiful, The Orphans' Home Cycle, dozens of others) are marked by the quiet desperation of small-town life, usually set in his fictional Harrison, Texas. But two of the leading females in The Old Friends, a posthumously pre…