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...institution's centenary. The play is being performed before large Washington audiences this week, was seen by TV viewers last week in a 17-minute cut-down version. Cry of Humanity was a monument to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), the New England schoolteacher who crusaded from Newfoundland to Louisiana for the "moral management" of the insane, persuaded Congress to open St. Elizabeths...
Conceived by Dance Therapist Marian Chace, Cry of Humanity was quickly taken over by the patients. They picked the life of Dorothea Dix for its theme; it was they who insisted .on showing scenes from her early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until...
There are several others, I think, who deserve special mention. All of the choruses were excellent, following their cues with firecracker timing. The backdrops by John Ratte were strikingly fresh, as was the short but effective appearance of Dorothea Schmidt. The frequent dances of Carol Corby and Patricia Leathem were not frequent enough, and although Gondoliers warrants a trip to Winthrop House, the presence of the two young ladies should be a final clincher...
Nunc ad vos tanseo qui principales partes Cecropio coturno agitis, ex quibus primi cum primis estis nominandi: tu, o Dorothea blandissima, et tu, o Ripa Pulchra (ab his conturaits puellis caute cave, o sagax KerbyMolitor!), nec non tu, o Michael purior quam sapientior, ct tu, o Sullivane frustra infernis ab tenebris resurrecte, et tu, o T. noster Hilaris, adulescens animac plene, Et chorum doctissimum et sobrium, ardium saplentiae fontem liquidae, et famulos fideles totis laudibus ad caclum extollimus. Quibus ombibus "florcatis gloria" dicunt Seneca Altonque Peters; nobis tamen "sacer est ignis (credite lacsis) nimiumque potens...
...sift the names that crammed three thick ledgers in Rubinstein's study, a glamorous procession of Serge's women friends minced into headquarters. Betty Reed, a platinum blonde soprano, was prostrated, but rallied to give hours of information to detectives. "He wanted desperately to be accepted," said Dorothea McCarthy, a redhead. "I once saw him send a bottle of champagne to a man. He said he had once done something to the man that was unforgivable, and he wanted to try to apologize." The man was unimpressed by Serge's peace offering, Dorothea reported, and sent...