Word: hermia
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Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander. Bottom is a timid bachelor who despairs of finding an old-fashioned girl and carries a torch for his long-lost mother ("Oh, Oedipus Rex, you're so right! right! right!"). When romantic moondust falls on all the wrong parties, the enchanted wood near Athens fills up with entangling misalliances...
...balcony shouted, "Don't come home too late tonight!" Through a loudspeaker a voice called, "Monsieur Bejart is wanted at the concierge's!" When things quieted down, Puck emerged from a wicker basket, wearing a pair of baby-blue wings, and three saucy minxes (Titania, Hermia. Helena) bumped and ground their way across the stage. In Sonnet for Sister Kate, an untamed shrew in an orange wig and a southof-the-navel decollete shimmied front and center, then disappeared into the wings, where she was received by the chatter of an offstage machine gun. In Lady...
...scenes at Court, while by no means bad, were the least engaging. John Kerr, who recently played Billy Budd, unfortunately hasn't yet unlearned any of the motions and facial expressions he learned for that play. Hermia was supposed to have two men chasing her but she wouldn't have had me interested for a minute...
...professional career started under the cold, sharp eye of the great Max Reinhardt. On the recommendation of a friend of a friend, Reinhardt hired her as understudy to the understudy of Hermia in his 1934 Hollywood Bowl production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. True to the old backstage plot tradition, the first-string Hermia got a movie offer, the second-stringer fell ill, and Olivia took the part. Movie Producer Henry Blanke, who dropped in on one of the rehearsals, noticed her. He thought she would be right for Hermia in the movie version of Dream which...
Further, the four distinct plots of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, which clog it plenty as a play, virtually wreck it as a musical. Helena, Hermia & Co. prove just as ghastly bores running loose in the wooded outskirts of New Orleans as in the Athenian groves. Nor are some of the headliners all they might be. Louis Armstrong should stick to his blast, not try to play Bottom. The Maxine Sullivan who sings Moonland is not the irresistible Maxine Sullivan of Loch Lomond...