Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Morris Carnovsky is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Cyril Ritchard doubles as Oberon and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Maria Tucci plays the title role of Jean Anouilh's Antigone until Sept. 10. Macbeth joins the repertory July...
...titled families would fill the whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke...
...Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France. Like the nearby Maria Cristina, the Palais is the expression of a royal whim: Emperor Napoleon III built it as a summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just...
Shylock's daughter, who elopes with the Christian Lorenzo, gives the impression, as played by Maria Tucci, of treating her Jewish heritage very lightly. Before you know it, she appears wearing a crucifix, and crosses herself as to the manner born and of the manna shorn. Jack Ryland's Lorenzo, moreover, is hardly worth the trouble of eloping with...
...other mistresses. Danglar, pinned to the wall, stammers what we had suspected all along: Nini could never keep him tied down; his life is the theatre and he loves only what he creates, while he is creating it. "You!" he says, pointing to Nini, and "You!" to Lola (Maria Felix), a magnificent woman who was once his lover, now a dedicated member of the troupe...