Word: avon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for the Borrower of Avon. Falstaff calls himself an English Bacchus, and he is one - word-drunk but still thirsty, sloshing his language about, banging his mug for more. He gossips, slanders, tells randy jokes ancient even in the 15th century and borrows stories when he runs out of his own. Henry IV, he announces, "was something of an in somniac, and his struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering...
...child murderess in Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and a gangster's moll in Bugsy Malone, Actress Jodie Foster is finally cleaning up her act. Her new role: a tomboy heiress in a Walt Disney kid flick titled Candleshoe. Now on location at Stratford-upon-Avon, Foster has been skate boarding for fun and profiting from her work on the set with Co-Stars David Niven and Helen Hayes. "I don't feel comfortable working with children," pipes Foster, 13, who appeared with some 200 child actors in Bugsy Malone. "Sure, they learn their lines quick...
...casual stroller who would like to think of the world's greatest playwright as the bawd of Avon will find plenty of license at Joseph Papp's production of Measure for Measure in Manhattan's Central Park. "Hence shall...
Died. Ben Iden Payne, 94, venerable Shakespearean actor, director and drama instructor; in Austin, Texas. Born in England, Payne managed Dublin's Abbey Players before becoming general director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon. In the U.S., he taught for nearly 20 years in the famed drama department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later created a Stratford of the Southwest at the University of Texas in Austin. On Broadway he directed such stars as Maude Adams, the Barrymores and Helen Hayes, who credited him with being the director "who taught me the most...
...book is for the wastebasket. A young black couple is taken on a tour down memory lane by three canny professionals (Avon Long, Josephine Premice and Joseph Attles) who are old but ageless. But there is no frost on their bones. This show comes from the tor rid zone...