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With chameleon ease, the citizens of Verona and Milan alternately declaim Elizabethan verse and belt out pop lyrics in this Guare-Shaprio adaptation of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. It's a good humored celebration of love, in which all's well since it ends well, despite a farcical dose of treachery...
...midst of a fray of adequate imitation Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets...
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...