Word: dona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dona St. Columb, though of the 17th-century English noblesse, has a soul the simplest of women will understand. Love's tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country...
Abracadabra. In Rio de Janeiro, Dona Rosa met an old friend she had not seen in five years, gave her the ritual hug (abraco&) of Rio residents, broke three of her ribs...
...skin bank was operating last week in a jail. Charles ("Reds") McCullough, 20, who is serving 20 to 40 years in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary for highway robbery, gave two big strips of leg skin to a little boy with bad burns around his knees. Daniel Dona hue (see cut), who last month gave skin for the second time to nine-year-old Evelyn Henderson, is serving life for murder...
...Friday night esplanade concert the Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society sang tour choruses from Bach's B -minor Mass: Kyrie, cum Saneto Spiritu, Crucifixus, and Dona Nobis. Despite the difficulties of outdoor singing the chorus sounded full and resonant, and had a good deal of "life" and enthusiasm for the music; but the tempo was noticeably ragged at places, especially in the very rapid and difficult Cum Sancto Spiritu. Also, there was insufficient shading of dynamics, although this may have resulted from the necessity of singing loud all this time in order to be heard outdoors...
Essentially a series of vignettes or period pieces, the play is of a sort unfortunately unfamiliar to American audiences. Lorca, his admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol...