Word: anagrams
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...Betsy Howard, who plays Canfield's ex, Janice Dayton, a movie star whose name must be an anagram or code-rendering of "Jayne Mansfield," didn't seem to mind the contortions to which Graham-White set her. And most of the time, I didn't either; as someone behind me remarked, "Wow! Look at all those legs!" But there were occasions, all in Act I, when even I and my anonymous correspondent two rows back had silently to agree that some of the positions she assumed should remain in the index of the Kama Sutra...
Gioconda's absurd libretto (by "Tobio Gorria," anagram for Arrigo Boito, Verdi's great librettist) revolves about a love plot of pentagonal complexity; Barnaba is in love with Gioconda, who is in love with Enzo, who is in love with Laura, who is married to Alvise. By the time Gorria-Boito sets things right, four acts and nearly that number of hours have elapsed. But La Gioconda is a singers' opera, and it gives the principals some rousing tunes, including Enzo's great second-act aria, Cielo e mar, superbly rendered last week by Tenor Tucker...
...monument in his own lifetime runs the risk of finding rude and irreverent remarks scribbled on the plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled...
...only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
...character and writings of poor Charles Lamb. He drowned his sorrows in drink, diluted his tragedy with splashes of nervous, tense humor, indulged in "conceits and quiddities" that might grate on some modern sensibilities. His letters make better reading than the essays he wrote under the name of "Elia" (anagram for "A Lie"). This selection by T. S. Matthews, onetime managing editor of TIME, is shrewdly contrived to show why Lamb was not merely pitied for his sufferings but loved as well for his goodness. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about Lamb's terrible life is that...