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...ROYAL STUD (I). Major Ronald Ferguson, the father of the Duchess of York ("Fergie") and a polo-playing chum of Prince Charles' was revealed to be a loyal member of a London "health" club specializing in massage...
...Duchess of Malfi: Orion Ross did a magnificent job of blending artsy pretentiousness with the emotional struggles common to all people. David Gammons' stripped-down set accentuated Tanya Selvaratnam's stirring performance as the Duchess, and flying refrigerators kept the audience on its toes. The play might have befuddled the audience with its sexist behavior toward women, but this brutality only added to the tragedy...
They hobnobbed with Roosevelts and Kennedys, counseled Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson, entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. At their hereditary mansion they favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus...
...Duchess of Malfi's dramatic content could easily have been drowned out if the actors had muddled the Shakespearian-like dialogue...
...only real change in the text--the conversion of the Duke of Venice to the Duchess of Venice--is a cutesy, annoying attempt at originality. Emilia's "ills that we do" speech to Desdemona in Act IV, scene 4, explains that men wield all the power in the play. More than simple cross-casting, Williams' decision is a script revision that helps to undermine the strength of Othello's clear and present gender tensions...