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...Alison Lurie remembers fondly one of the plays that Gorey wrote and directed through the Poet's Theater. It was called Amabel, and "was very amusing...
...girls, Julia, is out to trip Max into matrimony when a recent flame named Amabel shows up with an older idea. She appears in a dressing gown, soon has Max frothing and fumbling. When the pair rejoins the others, Amabel looks "like a cat that has just had its own mouse coming among other cats who had only had the smell." But Amabel's triumph is short. When the fog lifts, the only kitten Max has eyes for is gentle Julia, who sports retractable claws...
From the walls, tables and statuary niches of Patron Severance's palace had come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with...
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