Word: corombona
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...play's subtitle, Vittoria Corombona, might have been more apt than White Devil for the Loeb offering. The show was a vehicle for Jean Weston's Vittoria, and she rode it majestically. Her fury was never shouted, but came through instead as the disciplined, brittle, half-smiling anger of a real devil. Peter Haskell, though, prevented her from stealing the show. His unconventional Flamineo, more a pimp than a conspirator, lightened Webster's heavy psychologizing. As a commentator he clarified the story; as a murderer, he mad the killer's impulse seem explicable; and even when the action reached...
...SAFFORD, Leader.MERMAID CLUB. - Meeting this evening in 35 Hastings at 9.30 sharp. Members will kindly bring "Roister Doister," Ibsen's "Ghosts," and Webster's "Vittoria Corombona." The trial scene (Act III, Sc. 1) of "Vittoria" and the last act of "Ghosts" will be read...
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