Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Bank. After school Leontyne would sometimes wander over to the large green house to visit "Big Auntie" Everlina Greet, the Chisholms' maid (before that, she had been the Wisners', served the two families for 45 years before she retired four years ago). Leontyne would play with Jean and Peggy, the two older of the three Chisholm daughters. They were, she recalls, her "other family," and she was their "chocolate sister...
Illuminated Law. The play is Curtmantle, about Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket. a theme previously treated by T.S. Eliot and Jean Anouilh. With Anouilh's Becket still running in New York and soon to open in London, Fry tactfully avoided competition, opened his play in an odd setting: the new civic theater at Tilburg, in The Netherlands, where he hoped for a quiet tryout. The fact that the play was given in Dutch would help him, thought Fry. to concentrate less on language than on structure, always his weakness. Hardly a sneak preview, Curtmantle* opened to an audience...
...Jean Bodel, who wrote the play in about 1200 (in Medieval French, in octosyllabic lines, in rhymed couplets, in Arras, and, whenever he could afford the wine of his native Arras, in a state of intoxication) robbed the traditional Miracle Play of any seriousness it may have had. His motto was: Christianity can be Fun. He inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel...
There were splendid performances by Jacques Bersani, Ted Morris, Michel Herve, Jean-Claude Martin, Samuel Abbott, and N. Boylston. If you're in a holiday humor, I offer Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas my highest recommendation. I myself was celebrating the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, as well as my own. If you have no personal holiday to celebrate, I recommend them both...
Becket. Although hardly a Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's work is full of eloquence and pageantry. Well played by Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn...