Word: ancestress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A polished biography of an un cut gem of a woman, Sir Winston's ancestress, Sarah Churchill, who helped make the 18th century glitter...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A jewel box of a biography of the incomparable Sarah Churchill, wife to the hero of Blenheim, ancestress of Sir Winston...
...young writer (Tom Helmore) she is living with in Greenwich Village, and goes back to her New England home. Descendant of a Revolutionary War heroine who once detained General Howe for four days-whether from passion or patriotism-Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town. She gets even more involved when the young writer turns up. The play gets most involved of all trying to keep afloat...
...with Legend of Sarah is not just that the pattern is familiar but that like the pattern in wallpaper it endlessly repeats itself. Sarah starts with lovers scrapping and they continue to scrap, at ten-minute intervals, for the rest of the play. Betweenwhiles, the genteel agitation over the ancestress could be excused its lack of drama if it ever had any real gaiety as satire. The dogged humor of the play is not helped by the relentless vivacity of the production...