Word: mirabel
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...genre and of its convoluted mechanics. Plots, subplots, stratagems, backfiring intrigues and unmaskings make up The Way of The World. In simplest terms, the play hangs on a purse string. The superannuated but insatiably lustful Lady Wishfort (Jessica Tandy) controls a fortune and has an itch for the philanderer Mirabel (Jeremy Brett). He, in turn, has fallen in love with her niece Millamant (Maggie Smith) and schemes to blackmail Lady Wishfort in order to secure her consent to his marriage to Millamant. That is just about what happens...
...other performances are anticlimactic. Jeremy Brett seems not so much to be playing the role of Mirabel as modeling for it in some 18th century fashion parade, and while Jessica Tandy gives Lady Wishfort a brave try, she lacks the coarse, sensual vulgarity of what is, essentially, a dirty old woman...
World famous figure skating coach, Mrs. Mirabel Vincent Owen, will be back in Watson Rink next month for ten weeks of lessons for University and Radcliffe students...
...Owen is currently coaching the number one skating pair in the country, her daughter, Mirabel Owen, and Chuck Foster...
Radcliffe's Idler players finally knocked off their search yesterday for an actor experienced enough to fill the "great lover" role of Mirabel in their coming production of William Congreve's "Way of the World...