Word: goldsmiths
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Almost any afternoon in that rainy fall of 1771 you might have seen Oliver Goldsmith wandering out along the lanes of Hendon and Edgeware. From his aimless gait and the doleful expression on his face you would scarcely have guessed that he was busy concocting a new farce-comedy. But that's what he was doing. As yet it had no name, and the chances of its ever seeing the lights of London were none too good. Especially since Goldsmith got along so poorly with the theatre managers--Garrick of the Drury Lane, and Coleman of the Covent Garden...
...years later Johnson was writing: "Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy in rehearsal at Covent Garden to which the manager predicts ill success." "She Stoops to Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...
Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost...
...Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith and the Duchess are walking slyly out of the room, leaving the Duke and Angela to do as they think best...
...with another with no loss of continuity. His miller father and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, leaving him to the care of an elder brother. After an undistinguished education at Heriot's Hospital, he was apprenticed at 15 to an Edinburgh goldsmith named Gilliland. Edinburgh was expanding from town to city; there was much building but little art. To while away time when he was not designing little gold frames or trinkets, Henry Raeburn began to paint miniatures. To his gratification, and to Goldsmith Gilliland's who shared the profits, they...