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...music come through even more beautifully than Gilbert's words. Gerald Moshell evokes a full, singing tone from his fine orchestra, as is only proper, since Ruddigore has more than its share of set-apart showpieces--Thomas D. Fuller's hornpipe in the first act, the respectable caper Edith Marshall as a reformed Mad Margaret dances with Pell Osborn as a reformed wicked baronet in the second, the astonishing materialization of the Ruddigore ancestors, led by David Buchner, from their picture gallery--as well as a first-act finale that includes one madrigal, with lyrics about how nice the seasons...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
WRETCHED EXCESS (1): Costumer Edith Head's eighth Oscar for The Sting, for remembering how people dressed back when she began her career...
AUCHINCLOSS APPEARS to harbor an ambition to be a modern-day Edith Wharton, chronicling the life of an East Coast Establishment. He fails on two accounts. He does not hate his culture enough. Perhaps he is passionately involved with his New York strata, but the passion (love/hate) does not come through in his writing in the same way that it does in Wharton's novels of that world. And the society itself has changed, disintegrated, lost its potency; it is no longer so hateable or lovable...
...treated as an untrustworthy person, you become one." He added that "I felt my decision-making abilities had become affected." Then he hurried off to meet Sons Nedsky, 5, and Barney, 4, who were being flown from London to live with him in the U.S. Acknowledging that his wife Edith may divorce him when she is released in May from a Swiss jail, and that he has debts of nearly $1 million, Irving is, however, back at work, lining up interviews with "people high in government" for publication in New Times...