Word: kate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right, I give up! I love Shakespeare, but can't place a few of the cover characters. Who is the one beside Falstaff ? And the two beside Antony and Cleopatra-might they be sweet, gentle Kate and her husband from The Taming of the Shrew...
...proved to be one of the finest operas yet written by a native American. The libretto uses only words from Shakespeare: the text of Shrew, a speech from Romeo and Juliet, and some lines from the Sonnets. Unlike the Cole Porter musical comedy version of the play, Kiss Me, Kate, Giannini has given equal weight to the two pairs of lovers in the original tale--Katherina and Petruchio, Bianca and Lucentio. The result is a highly dramatic and serviceable opera libretto...
...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 Mac, a racy temptress in slinky black writhed atop the piano, then hopped...
...birthplace may well have been a tent. (No one is certain, but Ely was a rowdy tent town at the time, and at best the towheaded baby came into the world in a miner's shack.) William Ryan was a footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children. Kate, who had emigrated from Germany as a ten-year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three children was formally baptized Thelma Catherine, but Will Ryan, mindful of the fact that...
When he lunches at his desk, his wife, Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam (widow of a World War II flyer, sister of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Editor-Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.), sends his food over by messenger. His easy smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with...