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Like many other little girls, Electra Havemeyer liked to collect dolls. Her collection eventually included early American rag and wood dolls, dolls made of bisque, china, papier-mâchÊ, wax, rubber, rawhide, gutta-percha and celluloid. She also liked dollhouses, and wound up owning 43 of them, some big enough to accommodate people...
...course, Electra Havemeyer was not quite an ordinary little girl. The daughter of Multimillionaire Sugar Refiner Henry O. Havemeyer, she was mar ried in 1910 to J. Watson Webb, a polo-playing great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Webb eventually inherited a house and spacious tract of land by the verdant Vermont shores of Lake Champlain. It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses - and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America. In 1947, Mrs. Webb bought eight acres of land near the estate to create...
...play is being given by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater as part of an enterprisingly varied season that has included Sophocles' Electra and Noel Coward's Design for Living. The company displays more stamina than sparkle and sometimes throws itself at the play as well as into it, but Director Robert Kalfin wisely stresses the drama's pagan good humor rather than its repetitive class dialectics...
This cozy little Aeschylean tangle was just the sort of raw meat that Eugene O'Neill liked to chew on; so he fashioned the plot into his monumental 1931 trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra, set in New England at the end of the Civil War. Now the chiller has come alive again with the premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Metropolitan Opera. It was a cause for rejoicing-and mourning...
...Pinterectomy on his dialogue without Pinter's flair for making silence crackle. The cast underplays to the point of emotional invisibility, a particular waste in the case of Irene Papas. There are 2,500 years of tragic tradition structured in her Greek face, and as her film Electra showed, she could steal the fire of Olympus and set Broadway ablaze...