Word: henrik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Princess Margrethe, 28, heiress to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik, 33, the French-born former Count Henri de Monpezat: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...
...HENRIK: They are divine, they can divine. They sense imminent death and latent power. What finer efflorescence than a woman free of duty's tyranny...
...HENRIK: So visceral, Bert, so much the peasant. So what do they give me? Yakutis, Miss Susan Yakutis, interprets Hilde Wangel. She has a honeyed voice, Bert, a throat that lets slip pure and full sounds. A richly voweled music breaks from her. But her face is too fleshy, her stature too mean to be a princess. She stamps and pouts too much. Here is this woman, who should be a cistern of demonic forces, and she lets you think she quarrels over prices at the butcher...
...HENRIK: As for the Master Builder's wife, there's a bit of shine in this narrative. Sheila Hart played her, Bert. Dear girl! How wonderful she was in those speeches, cruel speeches where she confesses lifelessness. Who could have heard Miss Hart and not mourned that woman? A dry passion she has, a terrible brittle passion...
...HENRIK: Why, Sir Director McBain, did you parade my characters so stiffly across the stage? They seldom move and often declaim. Why did you work so hard to cudgel the wonderment out of the play...