Word: athanael
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...twice her stage experience. But for many a Chicagoan the Jepson impersonation was too careful an imitation of the one her teacher gave. Jepson's good looks were beguiling but she seemed the shadow of Garden as she made her queenly entrance, shamelessly attempted to seduce the monk Athanael, defiantly exhibited her body. Helen Jepson seemed embarrassed when she dropped her chiffon draperies, although she was absurdly well covered even then. Many of the subtleties of the role escaped her. But in a simple, direct way she succeeded, at least kept the men from lagging...
...Athanael, the monk (Baritone Danise) pretended, too. He pretended that the beauty of Thais had moved him to win her soul for Christ whom alone he loved, and that, in the winning, he found his love for Christ was really love for Thais. He died in torment of the flesh, while she, dying also, dreamed only of the mercy of the pale Christ, her last lover. He knew all the time that she was the Baroness Von Popper and in no more danger of hell fire than the people in the boxes, who knew this also, for she let them...
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