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When Joe Orton’s “What the Butler Saw” was first performed in 1969, the audience response—all shrill booing and ripped programs—might have been expected. After all, this is a sex comedy with a major subplot centered on the missing penis of Winston Churchill. Three decades later, when even the bawdiest wordplay lands you a PG-13, “What the Butler Saw” is now appreciated as Orton’s, ahem, seminal work. The play uses uncouth sexual humor to create a farce that...
Yesterday evening at the Leverett House Old Library, the Leverett House Drama Society presented the premiere of What the Butler Saw, a celebrated comedy by Joe Orton that won an Obie Award for Best Foreign Play...
...That's also the feeling in Britain, where courts must decide on a case-by-case basis whether nutrition and hydration can be denied to patients in a PVS. Courts are also involved in resolving disagreements on whether treatment should be withheld from critically ill patients. Last year, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court Family Division, ruled that doctors had the right to deny 9-month-old Luke Winston-Jones mechanical ventilation if he stopped breathing, despite his mother's insistence on intervention. Winston-Jones was born with a rare genetic condition that left him with holes...
...Moog's only guests, you and your entourage can avail yourself of a butler, a chef, a gym and a pool smack in the heart of Sydney's chic Darlinghurst quarter. Feel like having company? Then pop into the adjoining bar, which is open to the public and packed with local cognoscenti. If you really want to live the rock 'n' roll dream, there's a fully equipped recording studio on site. And Moog has even installed waterproof TV screens by the poolside, along with underwater speakers encased in glass. With diversions like these, it hardly seems worth the effort...
Servants in the Lindbergh home were, of course, immediately examined. They were Oliver Wheatley, the English butler, and his wife and Betty Gow, 26, who immigrated from Scotland four years ago and had been with the Lindberghs more than a year. Scotland Yard double-checked their records abroad. The New Jersey Police exonerated them publicly. Nurse Gow might still be implicated, for Major Charles Schoeffel went to England a month after the abduction on a mission whose nature was not explained. And it was Nurse Gow who brought Henrik Finn ("Red") Johnsen into the case...