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Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...garden house had "one inestimable advantage: it was private. . . ." In the damp and windy solitude of his gazebo he could meditate in peace. And visitors could come & go unnoticed. "For, as in Paris, so here before La Rochelle, the friar acted as chief of Richelieu's secret service." With Catholic secret agents and Huguenot traitors, in the flooded summerhouse, the friar would sit "into the small hours, listening to their reports and giving them instructions. Then, dismissing them with their wages, he would lie down to sleep. Before daybreak he was up again and on his knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tenebroso-Cavernoso | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

DIAGNOSIS: MURDER - Rufus King Crime Club ($2). Seven stories (one long) presenting Dr. Colin Starr, snappy young medico-criminologist. Starting from a gazebo hanging over Laurel Falls, Dr. Starr cleverly psychs his way about Ohio to the benefit of society at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: January Crime | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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