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Grumpy Sam. Why Miss Hahn bothered to go after her becomes clear as she brilliantly follows prim, self-satisfied Authoress Burney through her career. The success of her first tender little bore of a novel, Evelina (1778), lifted her out of the circle around her father, Dr. Burney the music master, and into the center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would...
Laid in an Eastern town in 1861, Bloomer Girl features revolt as well as romance. Evelina Applegate (played by thin-voiced but charming Celeste Holm) is the daughter of a stuffy manufacturer of hoopskirts, the niece of a suffragist proponent of bloomers. The young lady throws in her lot with her aunt, who also hides fugitive slaves. As a result, Evelina quarrels with her Kentucky beau (David Brooks), owner of one of the fugitives; and when Auntie gets pinched for crusading, Evelina accompanies her to jail. In musicomedy, however, stone walls do not an ending make...
...this is pleasantly interrupted by Composer Arlen's (Stormy Weather, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic) music-the choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...
...Died. Evelina du Pont, 98, sister of the late U. S. Senator Henry Algernon du Pont; of old age; in Greenville...
...LOVED No MORE-Arthur Bernon Tourtellot - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Life of Fanny Burney-friend of Johnson, Garrick and Burke, author of the famed Evelina and lady-in-waiting to George III's crocodile-mouthed Queen Charlotte. A sound enough biography, though the writing could be livelier...