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Joining the Volscian commander Aufidius (Julian Glover), Coriolanus leads an army toward Rome, determined to burn the city. Only the heart-wrenching plea of his mother Volumnia (Maxine Audley) deters him, after which Aufidius slays...
...Lady Audley's Secret takes flight from the Victorian potboiler of the same name and soars into satiric absurdity, complete with off-key arias. Uneven but interesting. At the Wilbur...
...woodpeckers and cuckoos and even lesser-known names for the human genitals (17 for the male and a lavish 28 for the female), as well as a wealth of arcane anecdote. Flipping to "Anagrams," for instance, the reader finds the story of a 17th century British eccentric named Eleanor Audley who, having plucked REVEALE O DANIEL out of her name, launched a brilliant career as a clairvoyant. Arrested by a jittery government for predicting the deaths of King Charles I and the Duke of Buckingham, she was reminded by the judge that her married title. Dame Eleanor Davis, kaleidoscoped...
Died. Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 49, 23rd Baron Audley, sometime playwright, heir to one of England's most ancient titles (dating back to 1313) and third husband (of 13 months) of Actress Sarah Churchill, Sir Winston's star-crossed daughter (her first husband, Comedian Vic Oliver, divorced her in 1945; her second, Society Photographer Antony Beauchamp, committed suicide in 1957); of a heart attack; in Granada, Spain...
Married. Sarah Churchill, 47, occasional actress and Sir Winston's frolicsome second daughter; and Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, Lord Audley, 48, elegant onetime manufacturer of crystal tableware; she for the third time, he for the second; in Gibraltar's Rock Hotel...