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...second son of a Belfast lawyer, Lewis never quite recovered from the death of his mother when he was nine. After graduating from Oxford, he predictably became a teacher there. Less expectably, he began to live with Janie ("Minto") Moore, who had been deserted by her husband; she was Lewis' senior by 25 years. Initially lovers, or so Wilson speculates, they settled into a surrogate mother-son relationship after their unorthodox menage was joined by Lewis' elder brother Warren, who had been cashiered from the army for alcoholism...
Bernard Shaw once saw the two roles played by Esme Percy at 17 and Dorothy Minto at 14, and said the work "for the first time became endurable." And I found a reference to a Pasadena Playhouse production in 1937 with an unidentified Romeo of 16 and Juliet of 14. These players turn out to have been Robert Willey and Anita Denniston--thanks to the Harvard Theatre Collection, which (bless it!) happens to have a playbill of the show in its holdings. The record would seem to go to the celebrated Fay Templeton, who a century ago had played Puck...
...problem of course with such a play is that once you assign each character a telling adjective there isn't much more to say of them. No one is about to accuse Dumas the Father of too much character development. As compensation, Joan Minto has provided costumes that would do the Laguna Beach "Festival of the Masters" proud. Warren Motley's Cardinal Richelieu, silently suffering from constant migraine as he tries to hold together both himself and the entire French state, could easily have stepped out of a painting by Goya, and Charles Smith, with just the slightest trace...
...Boorstin also has going for him the gracefully stark set, costumes, and lighting (by Bruce West, Joan Minto and Jim Harrison, respectively) and a swell rock band, The Rhythm Method, whose rendition of John Hall's music for "Morning" give that play the ersatz soul quality that helps make it tick...
...succeed External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson. To succeed the Liberals' U.S.-born Trade Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, 71, who became the most powerful man in the Canadian economy and, next to Pearson, the Liberal Minister best known abroad, the Prime Minister picked a Winnipeg lawyer, Gordon Minto Churchill, 58. To be Secretary of State (a grab-bag ministry that deals with such matters as relations between the federal and provincial governments), he brought in Canada's first woman Cabinet member: Mrs. Ellen Fairclough, a Hamilton, Ont. housewife and accountant...