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Atrocious Crimes. Byron was 27, and his bride, the former Annabella Milbanke, had just turned 23; their marriage lasted not quite a year. Its failure has variously been attributed to Byron's incestuous relationship with his half sister Augusta Leigh, to his heavy drinking, his mental instability, his not-so-latent homosexuality, and even his sagging finances. Byron himself blamed it on his mother-in-law, who later changed her name from Milbanke to Noel. When Lady Noel recovered from a severe illness, Byron scribbled a note to his sister: "I will reserve my tears for the demise...
Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...
...There is a little larceny in all of us," says Leigh Hall, general sales manager of a remarkable company called Willmark Service System. Armed with this cynical but profitable philosophy, Manhattan's Willmark has become by far the world's largest independent sales snooping firm...
Tovarich is the largest disaster Vivien Leigh has been involved in since the burning of Atlanta. As Scarlett O'Hara, she shrugged off unpleasantness with "I'll think of all this tomorrow." Virtually all that will bear thinking about in Tovarich is the age-resistant loveliness, piquant charm, and skilled show-womanship of Vivien Leigh...
Just when a playgoer wishes he could do the same, Vivien Leigh divertingly peps up the proceedings. She shimmies a madcap Charleston that ought to be recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch...