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Helms reveres life in the long-gone frame house and the simple bliss it afforded. "You did things at home," he recalls. "There was never a day in my life that my mother was not at home when I got there. I spent time with my father. He had a fifth-grade education. He was the wisest man I've ever known...
...half the opera that Hindemith's great Mathis der Maler-a work that really deserves revival-is, but Lou Galterio's madcap staging made it lively and Bruce Ferden's energetic conducting kept the evening humming. No amount of stage magic by Director Bliss Hebert, however, could save The Rake's Progress, the most depressing waste of a good libretto (by W.H. Auden and Chester Kailman) in 20th century opera. Neither Soprano Elizabeth Hynes' touching Anne Trulove nor Raymond Leppard's sympathetic work with the orchestra could raise the music above Stravinsky...
DIED. Ray Bliss, 73, veteran strategist of the Republican Party who, as its national chairman, played a key role in rebuilding the organization after Barry Goldwater's crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race; in Akron. After working in the 1931 mayoral election in his native Akron, Bliss rose through the G.O.P. ranks to become state chairman in 1949 and three years later joined the Republican National Committee, a post he retained until his retirement from politics last year. As national chairman from 1965 to 1969, he re-established the party's ties to young...
...terrifically convincing drunk, he confronts both high and low society while hilariously smashed. Somehow, you're supposed to think that his drinking is bad and the result of an unhappy childhood, but his drunk scenes are so good-naturedly boisterous that you are swept up into his alcoholic bliss and wouldn't mind him staying that way forever...
...18th century extramarital frolicking with the royals remained a family tradition. Of note were two daughters of the first Earl Spencer. Georgiana, the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire but better known as the Duchess of Dimples, achieved unwedded bliss with a Prince of Wales, the eventual George IV. Her comely sister Henrietta boasted in her diary: "In my 51st year I am courted, follow'd, flatter'd and made love to, en toutes les formes, by four men." Not all the Spencers were so sportive. George, brother of the third Earl Spencer, converted to Roman Catholicism and, as Father...