Word: countess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Countess Charlotte, she is found later on sipping tea and discussing her husband's unfathomable hold...
Engaged. Jeremy Thorpe, 43, witty leader of Britain's minute Liberal Party (The House of Lords, he once said, is proof of "life after death"); and Marion, Countess of Harewood, 46, shy, studious concert pianist who was divorced six years ago from the Queen's cousin, Lord Harewood. It will be the second marriage for both...
...modern world during the years he remained unconscious of it. His friends and relatives have grown old without him, and he himself has grown old as if at once, without sensing the passage of time. Only when he receives an unexpected visit from the woman he once loved, the Countess Matilde Spina, does he finally reveal his sanity, at first only to his servants, but eventually to the rest of the company...
...play. The throne room is decorated with two life-sized portraits which are supposed to represent mirror images of Henry IV and Matilde of Tuscany, the woman he loves, and their presence stimulates a predictable discussion about the reality of reflections. Much is made of the fact that the Countess Matilde's daughter is the perfect image of her mother as a young woman. To top it off, Henry goes around looking deep into people's eyes and seeing all sorts of past and present images reflected there...
...bowels of compassion" within her be moved by his plea (I wonder how that went in the original Italian), or when he criticizes his servants for revealing the secret of his sanity: "You jeopardized your own position. After all, no madman, no jobs." The insulting backtalk between the Countess Matilde and her lover, Baron Tito Belcredi, provides an element of domestic comedy that lightens the whole play. (This may be harmful in the long run, since it makes us disbelieve the seriousness of Tito's death in the end. We've been led to believe that he deserves every insult...