Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jennifer Marre's Julia stands out from the rest of the cast with Elizabethan integrity. Her singing is competent, her spoken Spanish sassy, but her forte lies in the elegant enunciation of Shakespeare's lines with a pleasing hint of an English accent. Her waiting-woman Lucetta (Annie Fine) has the only vaguely Puerto Rican visage of the lot and sings with stern indignation about "The Land of Betrayal." Judy Banks as Silvia dances with enough seductive verve to convince you that indeed she "wouldn't know a spiritual relationship...
...chest of art treasures donated by Mellon, 69, class of '29. The collection contains more than 1,700 paintings, 5,000 prints, 7,000 drawings and 20,000 rare books, and it is valued at close to $200 million. It ranges from the bejeweled, beribboned portraits of the Elizabethan period onward to the nobly blooded horses of George Stubbs. Its special strength lies in the richest period of British art, the years between the birth of Hogarth (1697) and the death of Turner (1851). Added to Yale's already strong holdings in 18th century British history and literature...
Founded by Chicago Entrepreneur Nate Sherman, Midas long thrived as the number of its franchised dealers increased steadily over the years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When...
ALTHOUGH PUNCTUATED with terrific bangs of comic energy, the current Winthrop House production of The Taming of the Shrew trips and falls over the unmasking of its Kate. By accenting the fast-biting moments of Elizabethan wit, director Leah Rosovsky has left the meaning of the play unclear. The actors, dressed in a hodge-podge of costumes and too often blocked like isolated commentators on the action, come up each with their own interpretations. Jennifer Marre's shrew submits to her husband with an attempt at audience-directed irony. But Jonathan Epstein's Petruchio tries to woo her sincerely with...
Jaques (also Shakespeare's invention), the cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling...