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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS (454 pp.) - Frances Trollope - Knopf ($5).
Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags. Or was it a mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil...
Today, every well-read American has heard of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans-second of a long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to...
Born in the Lake Ontario village of Sacketts Harbor, N.Y. (pop. 1,900), Frances first started singing in the village church choir. After high school, and some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating...
That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great...