Word: empresse
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...part to the hilt, lavishing his fellow character with Leo Buscaglian hugs and kisses. When the English Captain Edstaston (Orion Ross) arrives on the scene to arrange an audience with the Great Catherine, Patiomkin dutifully obliges, throwing the Englishman on his back and literally dropping him off at the Empress's private suite...
...German-born Empress, Elizabeth Humphrey appears to be thoroughly amused by and admittedly attracted to Edstaston, who turns out to be a prime specimen of the English booby. The attraction is clearly one way, however. Edstaston finds the Russians utterly abhorrent and uncivilized...
From the social criticism of Shaw, the evening progresses, or rather regresses into utter lunacy that characterizes Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great. While Shaw's play has a tendency to moralize against the so-called "liberal" rule of the Russian empress, Fielding's play serves to showcase the comedic talents of the cast...
...Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...
...Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...