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While the play might qualify as tragicomedy, it is more closely related to "life's little ironies." The locale is St. Louis in the mid-'30s, though that means more in attitude than in geography. The plot is bare-bones simple. Dorothea (Shirley Knight) is a blonde schoolteacher who has read the handwriting on the blackboard. She is spooked by incipient spinsterhood. A recent brief liaison with the school principal, a flighty socialite named Ralph T. Ellis, has lodged the romantic hope in her mind that she is his intended. Bodey...
With the actresses he has at his disposal, Williams does not have to send in the Marines. Like a magnifying glass, Knight can turn a role into a pinpoint of fire. With glares, hand signals and gusto, Miner kneads her part like the earthy dough of life, and if there is such a thing as cancer of the temperament, Moore displays a terminal case...
...Saxon rulers prided themselves on their armories, and in Washington an airy gallery evokes the power and pageantry of their court. The gallery is dominated by a mounted knight in full ceremonial armor, flanked by armor for a six-year-old boy; the walls bristle with swords, crossbows and wheel-lock pistols, and are enlivened by four panels showing jousters at the moment of impact...
...which he has given more than $40 million in cash. Then there are Christopher Wren, Debrett, King's Parade, Land's End, Tower of London. They represent England and the dignified 18th century values treasured most by Mellon, who was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love; and geography, the places Mellon owns, shows up in horses like the famous Mill Reef, named for a landmark near the Mellon house on Antigua in the West...
Ticketeer (enthusiastic): They are very nice chemises of iron, wet knight...