Word: amphitryon
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...their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting on them but on the earthly abode of Alcmena Fontanne. And they expected that in the next hour or so something deliciously scandalous would come...
December 9: "Amphitryon, von der Antike bis zur dentschen Romantik: Plautus, Moliere, Kleist...