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Betsy Wilson wins the award for most unlikely casting of the year. Little Buttercup is supposed to be an old woman; indeed the entire plot, for all it's worth, hinges on her age. Yet, Miss Wilson uses no "wrinkling" makeup and cavorts like a beautiful young courtesan with the entire male half of the cast; the audience loves every minute she is on stage. Such lines as "I am a mother" bring delighted hooting, and her entrance song, "I'm called Little Buttercup," is a tour de force...
Though the new baby is not expected until late January or early February, the bassinet used by Prince Charles and Princess Anne has been redecorated in buttercup yellow and white frilled nylon-safe colors for either sex. A sunny nursery suite commanding the palace's inner courtyard sports a fresh coat of off-white paint and new chintz curtains. Technicians are ready to fit out a complete delivery room in one wing if, as anticipated, the 33-year-old Queen decides to have the baby in Buckingham Palace. And the daughter of a Merseyside policeman, Mabel Anderson, taken...
...music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen on transcontinental flights, still managed to look buttercup-fresh in two movies made last year (he was Hollywood's third biggest dollar draw). Singer-Scholar Boone racked up an A-minus average, missed Phi Beta Kappa only because he took too many technical courses...
Frederick Brozer, on the other hand, sang very well indeed; but his speaking voice gave Pinafore an unfortunate Brooklynese note. Alison Keith, an old hand with G. and S., speaks and sings with great skill; her Little Buttercup was the best performance of the evening...
...hierba merely as grass, he lists dozens of botanical variations as well as a few related colloquialisms. Mala hierba can mean weed or it can mean a wayward young man. Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup...