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Victorian prudery nice-Nellified 19th century Shakespeare. In 1818 Thomas Bowdler, a retired physician, blue-penciled what he regarded as the Bard's blue lines and produced a Shakespeare without blushes for the family reading hour-doubtless pleasing that Victorian matron who emerged from a performance of Antony and Cleopatra saying, "How strangely different from the home life of our dear Queen." In the U.S. Shakespeare was so passionately popular that a dispute between the fans of rival actors-William Charles Macready and Edwin Forrest led to New York
...friend (not presumably Elsa Maxwell, the social lion tamer), and is quite formidable in her own way-one of those dauntless dames of the British Empire able to treat the fauna of 120,000 square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...
Half a century after she had the audacity to pioneer a 'bove-knee-length, one-piece bathing suit, Australian-born Mermaid Annette Kellerman, 73, now a Los Angeles matron, returned to her homeland, cast a knowing eye on the bikini-teeming Gold Coast beaches south of Brisbane, observed: "A bikini is very nice on a very young girl. But, my dear, those spare tires and that view as they walk away from...
Birgit Cullberg is a bun-haired, 51-year-old Stockholm matron who once planned to be a librarian. But while she was studying literature at the University of Stockholm, she discovered that cataloguing was not really her game: at the remarkably late age of 25 she gave it up to become a dancer. Since then, as one of Europe's most talked-about choreographers, she has been busy constructing her own five-foot shelf of bibliophilic ballets: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie. Last week she was in Manhattan to witness the premiere by the American Ballet Theatre...
...Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates, is rocking the town with scandal...