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...Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers...
...GLADYS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH by Hugo Vickers Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 308 pages...
...wait until 1921, when she was 40 and he 49, for the Duke of Marlborough, a surly little man who hated "Yanks" but married two. His obsession was Blenheim Palace, and Gladys soon found she had married a house. As duchess, Gladys pruned roses, cultivated a rock garden full of snakes, and bred spaniels in the state rooms. Ennui soon turned to hatred. One night during a dinner party she placed a revolver beside her plate. Her startled partner asked her what she meant to do with it. "Oh! I don't know, I might just shoot Marlborough...
...aisle seats, he sometimes seemed to find Broadway lacking in the style, elegance and wit that characterized the drama and literature of his favorite century, the 18th, about which he fashioned fascinating books such as Kings and Desperate Men, a survey of 18th century England, Marlborough 's Duchess, a biography of Sarah Churchill, and an anthology called The Portable Johnson and Boswell...
...dance and mime does not fully compensate for the narrowness of Shiels and Raymond's interpretation. Regarded merely as a nightmare, The Duchess of Malfi loses coherence and power. Though Shiels and Raymond have taken great liberties with the play--the plot is so tightly constructed that it survives. Horror after horror piles up and our interest never flags. Nevertheless, we don't believe in what happens. Bendheim's is the only performance approaching credibility. By removing The Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have...