Word: calpurnia
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...Emperor Justinian was seemingly easier. He allowed divorce by mutual consent, but there was a catch-22. The divorcees were expected to take a lifelong vow of chastity. Caesar dallied with Cleopatra on the Nile but could never marry her, presuming he had wanted to, because there was Calpurnia back at home, and she was above suspicion and therefore un-divorceable...
...rest of the male performances range from mediocrity down to Michael Stein's abysmal Titinius. There are only two small women's roles mid all the masculinity. Elizabeth Parrish's red-headed Calpurnia is acceptable, but Barbara Colby's Portia is monotonously and unmusically spoken...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...
...SECRET RIVER, by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (55 pp.; Scribner; $2.50). This little Florida fairy tale for children, the only finished work found among Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' papers after she died 18 months ago, tells about a little girl named Calpurnia. Once upon a bad old time, when nobody could catch any fish, Calpurnia turned hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests...
...minor roles, Edmond O'Brien is particularly convincing as Casca, infusing his lines with a natural fluency, while Deborah Kerr (Portia) and Greer Garson (Calpurnia) make the most of what are essentially bit parts...