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...home last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that if the Brazilian girl had not been off her game she would have beaten Billie Jean-and wasn...
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...
...Although Antigone and Creon both appear in the earlier part of the work, they confront each other face to face only in the second half--and this tug-of-war is the heart of the play. In this production, the two principals are a worthy match for each other: Maria Tucci and Morris Carnovsky. Carnovsky is of course a known quantity. But I had never been especially struck by Miss Tucci's endeavors. Her Antigone, however, is miles above anything she has done before; it is in fact a performance of the first rank. Anouilh has lined up the arguments...