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...Room Warren. It was King George II who gave No. 10 to England, specifically to the Treasury. Since Prime Ministers are also First Lords of the Treasury, they have had their way-and their woes-with the building for 229 years. Walpole openly entertained his mistress there; Pitt happily tippled his port on the premises; and Disraeli penned his Endymion between parliamentary debates. But seven P.M.s refused to live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office...
Burton-Becket hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with...
...sister," soon installed on the top floor, is actually Barrett's mistress, played by Sarah Miles as a tight-skirted strumpet whose eyes answer questions before they are asked. She begins shuttling from bed to bed, and the biological equation of man and master becomes Bar rett's first victory...
...China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress? The Malpasset Dam disaster stirred public demand for a legal solution...
...ever, the girls are better. Like for instance Meg Meglathery, the undisputed star of the show. Miss Meglathery hams the part of Mistress Sentry the Maid to wonderfully comic proportions, endearing herself--and the play--to the audience at every entrance. Patricia Hawkins is another charmer. She and Madeleine Fischer deliver wordy, nonsensical lines with great spirit and some success. Like everyone in the play, they are beautifully costumed. Kay Bourne moves handsomely through the difficult role of Virtue (Lady Cockwood) in a bawdy house...