Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it plain: . . . neither of the principals of this theatre was conscious of acting a part. It was to this primitive lack of self-consciousness that the play owed its enduring charm. Without their suspecting it, the play . . . was hovering on the brink of a myth...
Chicago suburbanites from the apartment houses of Evanston to the mansions of Lake Forest have long felt just as Bori does about "the opera house in the woods." The place has a unique, informal charm. It is an outdoor pavilion but the stage is enclosed on three sides, thus preserving the details which in much outdoor music are so sadly smudged. People may come informally dressed, smoke through the performances, have soda-water between the acts. And they come in crowds- in limousines, by train, or on the trolley...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...drive it fast. In Ravinia not long ago a motorcycle policeman stopped her, asked her why, she was speeding. "Ah," she answered, "It is not me. It is this car and it gives me oh! so much emotion." The officer made no arrest. He, too, was captivated by the charm of the modern civilized Lucrezia Borgia...
This practice, a product of Italian commercial ingenuity, is stoutly condemned by Dr. Shepard. Says he: "The girl always plays her detestable role, drawing the unicorn to his death by acting on his highest nature, without the slightest compunction. . . . One feels that the supernal charm of chastity might be dispensed with if we could have a little more sense of fair play in its place...