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...evening is a disappointment. Bilby's Doll confirms the composer's ambitious reach, but not, alas, his grasp of the subject. The story is drawn by Floyd himself from A Mirror for Witches, a historical novel by Esther Forbes. The libretto is as cluttered with conflicts as an O'Neill play, but it does not have half the dramatic impact. This comes as something of a surprise. Floyd's creed is that opera can succeed today only if the composer pays as careful attention to plot as if he were writing a play: the audience must...
...Esther J. Rolnick Providence...
...arrested for indecent exposure. On vaudeville stages in Europe and the U.S., Kellerman dived into a glass tank from heights of 75 ft.; she also starred in aquatic movies. In 1952 Kellerman's life story received a splashy MGM treatment in the film Million Dollar Mermaid, which featured Esther Williams and her wardrobe of 28 one-piece bathing suits...
...papers housed in Houghton, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, contains a diverse assortment of items, including 1000 post-cards Wolfe collected of European art and historical sites and a number of his works inscribed to Aline Bernstein, his lover and the model for the character Esther who appears in several of his novels...
When she sees the woman give birth in pain, Buddy tells her that the mother has received a drug to make her forget her suffering. Esther reacts with further horror: "I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind...