Word: mannerses
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Condon's 15th novel is a brittle comedy of bad manners. His prince is a dissolute leech on the public treasury who agrees to marry his German cousin only because Parliament will then begin to cover his royal debts. After meeting his intended, the prince whines that he is...
Addingly, it was charged that Dean Arthurs interrupted a council member while he was presenting a measure to set up formal liaisons between CHUL, CUE and the council. This is not true. First, Dean Arthurs does not have the authority to interrupt or speak out at any meetings of the...
This comedy was written by a Harvard-educated lawyer and first presented in 1906. The play is surprisingly un-spavined by age. It is the genre to which it belongs that has disappeared. Social comedy based on the code of an assured upper class has withered away with the democratization...
Reading at the dinner table is considered bad manners. Until Amy Carter [March 7] is old enough to behave and converse properly at a downstairs dinner. I suggest she stay upstairs with that greatly publicized nanny of hers.
In an artfully accomplished cast, Anne DeSalvo probably rates a golden pasta award as a diet-conscious Italian widow with the table manners of a seagull when it comes to other people's plates. Gemini is the kind of play the early William Saroyan might have enjoyed or, for...