Word: edwardian
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Died. Hilaire Belloc. 82, Edwardian man of letters; in Guildford, England (see FOREIGN NEWS...
With his bony, inbred face and mild Edwardian lisp, Salisbury at first meeting may look like a slightly astringent edition of a P. G. Wodehouse hero. But behind the prim manner and pained eyebrows lurks a will as strong as Churchill's. Salisbury, says one of his admirers, has the same political acumen as Laborite Herbert Morrison, but with this difference: the marquess has been at the game 450 years longer...
Banished Belles. Austerely handsome, upright and proper to a degree unusual in Edwardian England, the new Duchess of York stood in severe contrast to her radiant mother-in-law, Queen Alexandra, a woman whom Britons loved as much for King Edward VII's well-known unreliability as for her own beauty. Soon after the accession of husband George, in 1910, Queen Mary let it be known that "I will not have anyone around me about whom there is a breath of scandal"-a statement which automatically banished dozens of Edwardian belles from the royal court...
...opened the season at Manhattan's City Center with a gay splash. The play is minor and rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps the audience even puts up with the play...
...reserved for public occasions. Indeed, all his personal and artistic quiddities are backed by a natural robustness of temperament which smacks of his native Lancashire, still strongly accented in his speech. With a roving eye, an eloquent eyebrow and the general air of a grand poseur in the Edwardian manner, he is a brilliant and exhilarating after-dinner speaker. ("Winston and I are the two best speakers in England!") On his 70th birthday, he announced that all his exhibitionisms to date were merely "the overture" to what he intended to be "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against...