Word: floras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blind to the flattery the right shape can add; the sailor hat, the princesse, the cloche, the cartwheel, the turban, the coolie-surely one of these set off your face. Of course, if your desire softness and subtley, you can luxuriate in flowers, fruits feathers, wires fauna, flora, and rope...
Great Britain's, if not the world's, most elegant book of flower pictures is the Temple of Flora. First published in 1807, it brought fame and financial ruin to the man who conceived it. He was a well-heeled doctor named Robert Thornton, who spared no expense to make his book the most sumptuous of florilegia. He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse. Now the London firm of William Collins has reissued the Temple...
Maria Powers sings the role of the tough, domineering Madame Flora, who is ironically destroyed by the wishes of a dumb child and the fear that presses down upon her. Young Anna Maria Alberghetti's fresh, lyrical voice roams the scales with the ease of a disembodied spirit. Miss Alberghetti, as Monica, shows a remarkable talent for a girl only fifteen years old. The one non-singing lead, mute Tobey, is gracefully and sensually interpreted by Leo Coleman...
Second, the producers ignored the finest part of the Flora MacDonald legend, in which she bolts a door with her maidenly ulna to give Charlie time to flee through a trapdoor. It is not for mere moral support to a prince in his hour of need that Scottish ladies' societies around the globe are named in honor of noble Flora. To omit her finest hour is to mock the mettle of Caledonian womenhood...
Ring Around the Moon, written by Jean Anouilh and translated by the esteemed Mr. Fry, is still carrying on as is Black Chiffon with Flora Robson and Affairs of State with Celeste Holm. These plays are more noteworthy for their acting than their writing however...