Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a story based on Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder the monk in accord with history...
...texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls in love successively with two construction engineers...
...House of Bishops issued a pastoral affirming that: "We are bound by every solemn obligation to wage unremitting war against war. . . . Love of country must be qualified by love of all mankind: patriotism is subordinate to religion...
Helen Retires is a leftover from the onetime best-selling Helen of Troy, which made Writer Erskine's fame. The opera starts with Menelaos' funeral banquet and Helen as tart a widow as ever she was in the novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes...
...setting, supposed to be the Elysian Fields, looks like an old-fashioned cut-out valentine with harp strings on one side and a foot bridge across the middle. There Helen and Achilles sit and sing love duets. An old fisherman comes by. convinces Helen that no love can last forever. She sends Achilles back to the other ghosts, stretches herself out to die. A younger fisherman appears. After he dances vigorously for her, the incurable Helen decides to try again...