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BORN. To Lord Snowdon, 49, English photographer whose 19-year marriage to Princess Margaret ended in divorce in May 1978, and the Countess of Snowdon, 37, the former Lucy Lindsay-Hogg: a daughter, her first child and his third...
GRACE SHOHET portrays the play's most interesting and controversial character, the lesbian Countess Geschwitz, who sacrifices everything for Lulu. Wedekind created the only fully rounded human portrait in the role of Countees Geschwitz, and Shohet infuses it with pathos. Her despairing speech in the last act strikes one of the few sincere notes in an otherwise emotionally detached production...
...Roberts was promoted from a non-descript Lord to the pivotal part of Feste. He sings well indeed, although-unlike Mark Lamos last year--he has to fake his lute-playing. Ellen Tobie is a little less skillful than Lynn Redgrave as the disguised Viola, but Julienne Marie's countess Olivia is a bit more subtle than we had before...
During his 20 years in the House of Commons he had revived Britain's once great Liberal Party as a potent force in British politics. As a product of Eton and Oxford, and the husband of the former Countess of Harewood, he was an important member of that peculiarly British Institution, The Establishment, an exclusive "old boy" network that is still one of the keys to power and influence in Great Britain...
Throughout the night the ship blazed, lighting up the harbor and causing the Cunard Countess to cast off from its neighboring berth and head for the safety of the open sea. The intense heat melted through the blue-and-white vessel's metal plating and buckled its superstructure. Authorities considered towing the ship out to sea in case it exploded, but were afraid it might capsize in the 20-m.p.h. wind. By early the next morning, the ship had settled to the bottom, its unsubmerged topsides still flaming. None of the passengers or 360 crewmembers were seriously hurt...