Word: bronfen
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...fellows for 1987-'88 will be: Elizabeth J. Bellamy, University of Alabama; Elisabeth Bronfen; University of Munich; Howard Brick, University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...
Elizabeth Philip is strikingly beautiful in her photographed sequence and holds a choreographed tension throughout the play. Elizabeth Bronfen is suitably lactic and senile as Queen Victoria, while Lisa Claudy and Danielle Alexandra both flow through their mimes with professional ease and individuality. The actors are obviously competent and make do as best they can, but responsibility for their scattered incoherence must lie with the director...
...women are much worse. Elisabeth Bronfen as Cecily simply lacks the control to make of the country ingenue a polished caricature. Her emotional range is too limited, and some of her expressions--like the look of disgust she shoots the men at end of Act II--are absurdly out of character. The humor in Gwndolen's role should stem from her delivery of hard-hearted lines with disarming sweetness. Brooks Clapp totally misinterprets the part, however; icily indifferent, she walks about stiffly with her nose in the air, as though she'd just been starched...
...real estate and bought a hotel. Sam soon acquired a hotel of his own, but the coming of Prohibition in Canada in 1916 forced him to close the bar. He also saw that the law permitted alcohol sales across provincial borders. So, although it is just a coincidence that bronfen is the Yiddish word for whisky, the young Bronfman brothers started a wholesale mail-order liquor business. For a time it flourished, but as the Canadian authorities gradually took over all retail liquor sales, the Bronfmans began looking south...
...ROBERT BRONFEN Berkeley, Calif...
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