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...French aristocrat, is totally absorbed in the memory of an eccentric ballerina, Leocadia, who, in a dramatic gesture, strangled herself with her scarf three days after meeting Albert. Albert, thinking himself in love with Leocadia, can do nothing but relieve his three days with her. His old aunt, the Duchess, has bought all the places Albert and Leocadia visited (a nightclub, a park bench, etc.) and placed them on her estate. At the beginning of the play she brings Amanda, a girl who resembles Leocadia, to the estate to complete memory lane. Amanda and Albert try to relieve the three...
...does not pursue many of them. He falls into the trap and explores only the lack of understanding between the very rich (Albert) and the poor (Amanda). And this conflict is the most trivial in the script, as well as totally overdrawn. Silverthorne underplays the pitiful position of the Duchess, and her inability to help Albert even though she desperately wants to. The real nature of Albert's melancholy is only suggested...
Laura Esterman obviously tried very hard to breathe life into Amanda, but lacked the skill to succeed. her struggle to retain sanity and individuality in the dream world of the Duchess and Albert was contrived and unconvincing. Her anger was that of a little girl-not a woman-and so was her love. At the end of the second day of impersonating Leocadia, Amanda finally objects and asserts herself as an individual. In a long monologue, Albert attempts to explain himself, his love and Amanda's inability to be Leocadia; he actually declares that he loves Amanda (although he doesn...
...bedroom cottage ($140 a day) like those occupied by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan during the recent Nassau Conference. Members-who include the A. Watson Armours of Lake Forest, Ill., the Henry Fords of Grosse Pointe, Mich., the Arthur E. Pews of Philadelphia and (honorarily) the Duke and Duchess of Windsor-pay an initiation fee of $560, annual dues of $280, and may buy a lot for $70,000 or more on which to build a cottage among the hibiscus, bougainvillea, passion flowers and night-blooming jasmine. The golf course is excellent, and the dockage for the family yacht...
...year. Among his novels published in the U.S. are On a Balcony, about Nefertiti and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton; The Judges of the Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently, A Dancer in Darkness, a superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published...