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Duchess of Windsor, which was painted for the Duke in 1939. An average Brockhurst portrait takes about eight hour-and-a-quarter sittings, plus extra time for hands, backgrounds, diamonds, chiffon evening gowns, lace and medals. Because "she had an unusually mobile face and looked different every time she came to sit," it took Brockhurst twelve sittings to paint the Duchess...
Ring Around the Moon, written by Jean Anouilh and translated by the esteemed Mr. Fry, is still carrying on as is Black Chiffon with Flora Robson and Affairs of State with Celeste Holm. These plays are more noteworthy for their acting than their writing however...
...Black Chiffon (by Lesley Storm; produced by John Wildberg) refers to the nightgown that matronly, well-to-do Alicia Christie (Flora Robson) shoplifted off a counter. She had gone out to shop for a dinner party in honor of her son's marriage and she came home facing trial for theft. The rest of the play searches out, with a psychiatrist's help, her motive for so strange an act, and then ponders whether she can use the motive for her defense. She finds that, just as her husband has always jealously resented her being so close...
...would be unfair to say more and rob Black Chiffon of whatever suspense it has; that, along with the chance it gives people to act, is just about its only virtue. It is one of those triangle stories of the husband, the wife and the offspring treated to a British mixture of the melodramatic, the mawkish and the scandalous. It is Freud for suburban housewives whose buzzing classroom is the Wednesday matinee. Offering theft as an aperitif, it follows up with a seemingly headier and more dangerous brew that is actually rather saccharine and soporific...
...time spring comes again, Bostonians should be spelling "Theater" the British way, with a "re." The brightest local season in many years seems to be well on the way, with British imports especially promising. Plays already opened are "Season in the Sun," "Black Chiffon," and "The Curious Savage"; in the musical field, "Pardon Our French" and "Call Me Madam." Incredible though it may appear, every one of these five shows has hit possibilities. They are all in excellent condition for a Boston tryout, and they will improve even more before opening in New York...