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...unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...that the sweet ladies who run the Winsor Map Room don't do their best for you. They pore over the old handwritten catalogue books and sort through the forests of wall maps, drawers crammed with charts, and stacks of old and valuable atlases. But to little avail. Everything, it seems, is out of place; nothing has been scientifically catalogued...
...avail. The gray old Tower of London has become a Chamber of Horrors, and this merryman has been rendered moping...
There must be kindness; which will best avail...
...ordered the rest of the cast to speak as quietly and as naturally as possible. This mutes their bombast well enough--and one can't in all conscience complain about that: there's entirely too much noise in almost every Shakespeare production--but it seems to be of little avail. With the exception of a few actors, like Mr. Abbott himself (who is the languid and ailing King Edward), or Andreas Teuber (a vital Buckingham, and a perfect Charlie to Pickett's Ev), or Phil Kerr (Harry Richmond), whose skills approach those of Mr. Pickett, none of Richard's enemies...