Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simply structured around a single incident--the divorce hearing of the Baroness and the incidental battle for custody of the child--the play uncovers one rotten layer after another in the married life of the people, as the wife and husband chase each other in an increasingly vicious circle of accusations...
...Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage...
...Including a share in the 44 Vicarat Hope Diamond, the historic "bad-luck" stone once worn by Marie Antoinette and supposedly possessed of an Oriental curse. Mrs. McLean's husband bought it in Turkey in 1911; he subsequently went insane, his eldest son was killed in a car accident, while Mamie's mother died at 25 of sleeping pills. The gem was sold in 1949 to Jeweler Harry Winston, who in turn gave it to the Smithsonian, "where," says Mamie firmly, "it belongs...
...heart-broken poet scorned by Ann, is quite weak enough to deserve's Ann's cruel "Ricky-ticky-tavy" nick-name, but hardly deep enough to evoke sympathy. Timothy Mayer's Stryker, the auto mechanic and supposedly the New Man, and Mark Bramhall's Hector, Violet's secret husband, are spoiled by their accents. Mayer is sometimes hard to understand and Bramhall sounds more like a simpleton than the Jack Kennedy he apparently was immitating. Both, however, have enough sense of timing to draw their laughs well...
...known, though English Authoress Janet Dunbar's sympathetic biography tells a great deal about the little-appreciated Mrs. G.B.S. Perhaps to avoid the temptation to take Shaw too seriously, she does not mention what is surely one of the most intriguing epitaphs ever composed by a bereaved husband. Disapproving of "sympathies, regrets, condolences" after Charlotte's death, G.B.S. told, instead, the story of an Indian prince's favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before she could be extinguished. The prince took in the situation at once...