Word: madrigale
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It gives itself two chances to win by alternating a tale about the decline of domestic happiness in the U.S. with a succession of vaudeville acts. Between variety turns featuring magicians, quartettes, octets, horrifyingly clever children, crooners and mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan...
The trouble is that in its Tarkington-esque aspects, the show is completely lacking in genuine remembrance, ease and spontaneity. The cyclists are pretty to look at, but as artificially gay in spirit as so many madrigal singers. As a Midwestern servant of the early 1900s, Pearl Bailey is about...
In the valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur...
The Author is the sister of CBS News Commentator Quincy Howe. Boston-born, she left Radcliffe after a year for dramatic study in Paris. She has delivered her monologues (typical subjects: a girls' college talk on personal hygiene; a leader of amateur madrigal singers) in London, the White House...
Romance of the week broke in tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met...